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Discontinuous Innovation: Transforming Industries & Creating New Markets

Qmarkets

By definition, it refers to the introduction of groundbreaking products or services that fundamentally change market dynamics, often rendering existing solutions obsolete. This form of innovation doesn’t just improve on existing products; it completely redefines them, creating entirely new markets and consumer behaviors.

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Surrounded: When disruption hits on all sides (Part 2)

Christensen Institute

In Part 1 of this blog series, I highlighted that disruption in health care is increasingly present at many points along the consumer value chain. Key takeaways to recall from that first post are as follows: Disruption doesn’t stop where it starts. What happens when disruptors move up-market?

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Thursday Theory Tips- Disruption, a theory of competition

Christensen Institute

Disruptive innovation is commonly misunderstood. Just watch “ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ” to hear one of the main characters, Miles Bron, get the definition of “true disruption” really, really wrong. That is the power of disruption. Back to leveraging disruption theory to win.

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Business Model Disruption: MrBeast vs McDonalds

Strategyzer Innovation

2020 has been an incredibly disruptive year for the restaurant industry with losses of over $240B in the US market alone. Supply chains have been cut, the way people consume and order food has been turned upside down by the pandemic.

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. This has been partly based on my own experiences, combined with a constant update of building up knowledge, valued as a scarce resource. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. Technological disruption is altering all we do.

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Surrounded: When disruption hits on all sides (Part 1)

Christensen Institute

Disruption in health care started to accelerate about 15 years ago when models like One Medical and iora health launched their lower-cost, more affordable, and more accessible approaches to primary and on-demand care. This move is just what the theory of Disruptive Innovation would predict. So what can incumbents do?

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Which new developments in K–12 education will prove disruptive?

Christensen Institute

When Clayton Christensen first met with Andy Grove, the prior CEO of Intel, to teach him about disruptive innovation, Christensen insisted that their conversation would be most valuable to Grove if instead of telling him what to think, Christensen took the time to teach him how to think using the theory. But that analysis takes effort.