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Selective universities won’t be disrupted

Christensen Institute

Thanks to a confluence of factors—unsustainable business models and cost structures; demographics; and new, low-cost college options or alternatives powered in part by online learning—roughly 25% of colleges would close or merge in the couple of decades ahead. Disruptive innovations initially expand the pie, in other words.

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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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Future-Proof Your Business: Building Strategies for a Disruptive World

Leapfrogging

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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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. Organizations often are far too close to existing markets to recognize that they are actually shifting; they ignore or miss the signs in many ways.

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China the story of innovation and disruption.

Paul Hobcraft

Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. Much of the innovative disruptions seem so obvious; you wonder why we were not doing these before.

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Students need internships, but internships need disrupting

Christensen Institute

Strada and Burning Glass Institute’s new Talent Disrupted report made headlines this week conveying the indisputable crisis of underemployment that an astounding half of college graduates face. However, each of these outcomes amounts to particular links in the complex value chain connecting learning and work.

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Failure - learning or leavening?

Jeffrey Phillips

The reason is that the corporations in the industry have an existing stake in how things operate and would prefer to evolve slowly rather than disrupt how things work today. Most learning is based on trying and failing and having the willingness to try again and to learn. If not, then perhaps a learning opportunity.

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