Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

It’s not about what I think will happen in 2024, but instead what theories of disruptive innovation would suggest. won’t disrupt health care, despite claims to the contrary. However, as we’ve discussed before , the term “Disruption” is often misunderstood and misused. But are they likely to disrupt incumbents’ offerings?

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 23, 2023

But in the face of innovation discontinuities, theory is one of the best tools for prediction. What are the necessary elements for disruption? Clayton Christensen found that the phenomenon of disruption usually requires three enablers: a new technology, a new organizational model, and a congruent value network.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 2, 2024

The decline in enrollment in higher education, disruptive alternatives to higher education, demographic declines, and the continued rise in spending by higher education. Roughly 70% of students took at least one online course in 2021–22. When disruptive innovation is afoot, competition follows predictable patterns.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 1, 2022

The Executive Innovation Work Mat as a compelling business case. After a series of conversations around the Executive Innovation work mat, Jeffrey Phillips and I decided there was a need to add one more to the series, one that makes the business case for the work mat, one that is more from the leaders perspective.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 2, 2020

A massive transformation faces the software industry, similar to the disruption we’ve seen hit other industries like health care and manufacturing. But, unlike other transformations that destroy existing markets, low-code and no-code software promises to make software itself even more ubiquitous than it is today.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 10, 2018

Jesters of course are an outgrowth of slaves who rode with generals returning from major conquests in ancient Rome. Today's executives are very powerful, but are beholden to markets that demand exceptional financial precision. What I'd call a chief disruption officer. That new role is the Chief Disruption Officer.

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Jeffrey Phillips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

From new medical devices to new banking products, to new consumer appliances and more, I've worked on a number of innovation projects in a wide range of industries. Over time, as innovation has matured somewhat, many innovation consultants began to reference Doblin's Ten Types model.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 5, 2016

I'm reading a lot about "disruptive" innovation from firms that I think have a lot to protect and preserve. Can you simultaneously protect and disrupt the same product, segment or market? So what are all of these corporations disrupting? So what is everyone "disrupting"? I think the answer is "no".

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 10, 2020

Constructing an innovation conversation framework is never easy, we all come at it in different ways and when it comes to those strategic conversations, we feel a sense of panic and growing tension as our messages begin to fray at the edges and slip more into tactical, the more we talk. Really do try and establish some key principles.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 2, 2020

A massive transformation faces the software industry, similar to the disruption we’ve seen hit other industries like health care and manufacturing. But, unlike other transformations that destroy existing markets, low-code and no-code software promises to make software itself even more ubiquitous than it is today.

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Software Disruption Industry Marketing 100

Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 26, 2021

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Understanding the sensory and cognitive abilities of innovators Following on from my first post on building an Innovator’s Sensory profile, the combination of various cognitive, emotional and environmental factors heightens our awareness, so I needed to explore this further in this post. Nothing is set in stone.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 17, 2019

I'm writing a series of blog posts to document some of the things I've learned in innovation along the way, over 15 years of leading corporate innovation work. So far I've written several blogs, the first about the importance of d efining a why and a how for innovation , the second about the importance of an idea sponsor.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

I spoke to 11 of the world’s leading female innovation experts to get their definition of “innovation” The variety in their responses may surprise you. In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition in order to answer the question of “What is innovation?”

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 2, 2022

This piece is authored by Esther Clark, Executive Director of Marketing, Inspired Online Schools. The innovation. Founded in 1968, the IB has always been an advocate for innovation in education and currently offers four educational programs to students aged 3-19. Innovation results from the unexpected connections between things.

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Strategos

MARCH 24, 2017

Innovation that challenges well established industry business models promises opportunity for some and instills fear in others. We are drawn to stories of entrepreneurs who came up with brilliant ideas that disrupted the existing “rules of the game” by which industry players compete with one another. Disruption.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Why do R&D labs succeed in creating new technology, but fail at bringing these innovations to market? R&D labs don’t bring new innovations to market typically because they are charged with inventing new technology, but not the commercialization of those inventions. Innovation requires creating value.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 11, 2021

I was asked recently to write a short post about the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed. It's actually not possible to write a short post about innovation, much less the conditions necessary for innovation to succeed, but I've tried to simplify this into nine critical factors for success.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 12, 2020

There’s a lot of uncertainty and even panic regarding the coronavirus, its current and potential impact on our economy, and of course, its effects on people all around the world. Regardless of how dire the situation might be, innovation really shouldn’t be one of the things that gets cut when you spot trouble on the horizon.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 16, 2021

I'm writing a series of blogs based on questions that I regularly receive about innovation. In my last post, I wrote about the staffing plan necessary to sustain growth and innovation , basing it in part on the Pareto rule. What skills are critical to next and new innovation First, we need to define our terms.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

I think that’s because in most conversations about education innovation today, skills are the “what”, and tech-enabled efficiency is the “how.” Against that backdrop, this year I’m watching innovations that explicitly humanize an environment where skills and AI will likely dominate the mainstage.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Confronting Your Darwin Effect through innovation. I have been working away, call it my labour of love, with plenty of frustrating moments but have “pushed on” through sheer determination, on my thinking through the ‘harnessing’ of the dynamics within innovation. It is so hard to let go!

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

What is Product Market Fit? The source of competitive advantage is disruption, and whoever manages to survive it will differentiate themselves within the invisible hand of the market. And how to survive the disruption? That’s where Product Market Fit comes in. How to identify the Product Market Fit?

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Tim Kastelle

JANUARY 7, 2016

To get to that size, they must have been building for a huge market right from the start, right? They slowly added features, like The Wall – this happened when they expanded their market to everyone that had a.edu email address – 20 million people or so. Niches with pain are what leave openings for disruptive innovations.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 23, 2019

As a person who has spent more than 15 years focused on corporate innovation, I find the rapid emergence of digital transformation interesting, and sometimes a bit troubling, as you may recall from a previous post. Sequential Implementation There's always been a tendency to wait for innovation.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

But the tumult of COVID seems to have accelerated the technological disruption that has long been taking place in higher ed, and, in this wake, traditional rankings seem closer to irrelevance than ever. So, we decided to redesign these courses to try and make the content less divisive. As Clayton Christensen and Michael B.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 15, 2019

While foresighting, trend spotting and scenario planning are exceptionally valuable, many innovation projects simply ignore the benefits they can receive from doing this work. Instead innovators plunge in to create the products and services they believe customers need.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 23, 2023

She is the Executive Director of Marketing at Inspired Education and writes about innovation, strategy, and international education. Welcome anomalies, welcome innovation Organizations today that foster such an active learning loop will naturally self-correct. The disruptive innovators. Follow @ClarkEsther.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns. Others looking at the innovation progress keep demanding tangible evidence and quantifiable guarantees that the outcome provides clear returns.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Innovation comes to businesses in many ways, yet one thing is for certain: It relies on a diversity of thought. After all, differing viewpoints have been known to encourage greater innovation. Of course, not all businesses go the accelerator route. Including Higher Education in Professional Innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, I could not help going back into my archives to dredge up a post I wrote almost ten years ago, which was entitled Innovation Fast and Slow. At the time I was writing this post, I was concerned that too many companies were under too much pressure to speed up their innovation activities and generate some interesting new ideas.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 5, 2019

The Open Innovation Summit is all about expanding innovation beyond a small committee or a lab in the building to your entire organization. Just like any other scaling project, taking innovation company-wide can come with unexpected obstacles. Innovation Is A Need. Innovation Isn’t Tech-Driven. Be Adaptable.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 17, 2021

I'm a fan of military history, and it is always striking to me to see how much new product development and innovation can learn from the military and vice versa. The military is rich in innovation, but most of that innovation flows from the middle and lower ranks. Get unfiltered insights from customers and the market.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Training Disruption 144

Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 18, 2019

I was on a conference call recently, discussing an upcoming keynote that I'll deliver to a academic-federal government program meant to accelerate new technologies from basic research into the market. We were talking about the "ecosystem" of contributors that can help move basic research from academia and research labs to market.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 7, 2022

Welcome to our first “Innovation in action” piece, where we ask leaders in the postsecondary and K–12 space to discuss what innovation looks like within their community, institution, or school; why they believe it has the potential to help students; and tips for successful implementation or scale. Stay tuned!

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Innov8rs

MARCH 8, 2024

Innov8rs | Companies are increasingly focusing on quantifying the return on investment (ROI) of their innovation initiatives. Click to play the full session recording The Evolving Role of Innovation Departments Innovation departments maintain a company's competitive edge through continuous reinvention and adaptation.

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