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HBR Podcast on Disruptive Innovation

Idea to Value

Do you know what disruptive innovation is? No, I am not talking about every start-up trying to disrupt their industry. I am talking about the original theory of disruptive innovation, as outlined by Professor Clayton Christensen in his groundbreaking Harvard Business Review article in 1995.

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2023: Making The Shift From Disruption To Resilience

Digital Tonto

It’s been roughly 25 years since Clayton Christensen inaugurated the disruptive era and what he initially intended to describe as a special case has been implemented as a general rule. Disruption is increasingly self-referential, used as both premise and conclusion, while the status quo is assumed to be inadequate as an a priori principle.

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Creating the conditions for disruptive innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

In what is probably one of the most revered books among innovators, Edward De Bono wrote about six "thinking" hats. Why can't we innovate? By the way, I have had the opportunity to work with some large firms on some relatively disruptive ideas. De Bono identified six perspectives or "hats" that people wear. Outside the box?

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. I wrote about the “ cascading effect” for innovation as “ a sequence of events in which each produces the circumstances necessary for the initiation of the next”. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. The age of “technology attack.”

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Why incremental innovation is so easy; disruptive is so difficult

Jeffrey Phillips

After years, no decades, of working in and on the margins of innovation, I think I had an epiphany recently. For me, one epiphany that happened this week was when I was thinking about how valuable truly disruptive innovation is, and why it is done so rarely. First, you are working with a proven entity.

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Why do we have difficulties to self-disrupt?

Paul Hobcraft

“Why do we always seem to have internal difficulties to self-disrupt?”. In most cases, organizations cannot self-disrupt, which is largely covered by this veritable list of constraints. The processes become overburdening, hard to change, far too complex to change without significant commitment and top management support.

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Unleashing the Power of AI in Innovation Management

Leapfrogging

The Intersection of AI and Innovation Management My journey into the realm of innovation management began as I witnessed many clients wrestling with the increasing complexity of developing new products and services. The Rise of AI in Innovation Management What is Artificial Intelligence?