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Why the Tech Industry Won’t Disrupt Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At first glance, it looks like health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. Instead, the winners will be health systems that team up with digital tech companies. But for many reasons, the incumbents — established health systems — will be extremely hard to displace.

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How Leaders Can Be Stewards of “Good Tech”

Harvard Business Review

It’s always been important for companies to take responsibility for the creation, application, and disruption of the technologies they create and use, but now that the rapid application of AI is affecting people’s privacy, security, and daily lives as never before, accepting that responsibility is essential.

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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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Using Technology to Improve Supply-Chain Resilience

Harvard Business Review

To move forward, supply chain managers need more flexible, dynamic connections between trading partners to replace their current point-to-point, static connections that are unable to adapt to sudden, unexpected supply chain disruptions. What they need is a more modern, more responsive supply chain platform.

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Leaders will invest less in transformational innovation due to fears over the economy

Idea to Value

This may upset a lot of startups or innovation teams who feel like it is their duty to look to the future and pull their company into new disruptive technologies. And the biggest drop is in what proportion of projects will be for transformational innovations. However, it might be the right thing to do.

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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected. However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. Technology: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? source: pixabay.com. 1 The Devil in Design.

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Five Technology Trends Driving Manufacturing (Are you on Board?)

Daniel Burrus

New manufacturing plants will utilize the latest technologies in an effort to increase productivity and competitive advantage. Due to the fact that technology-driven exponential change affects everything, manufacturing businesses must always keep up. . Five Tech Trends Impacting the Manufacturing Industry.