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About twenty-five years ago, Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen coined the term “disruptive innovation.” I worked with Clay for many years building his consulting practice, and I ...

Plastic plays a critical role in virtually all industries, from agriculture and construction to healthcare and manufacturing. Time magazine has called plastic one of the four materials (along with ...

As innovators mature they realize that innovation for its own sake is less important than creating a portfolio of innovation outcomes. The biggest challenge many face in this regard is the balance ...

Michael E. Raynor, who collaborated with Clayton Christensen on the development of the theory of disruptive innovation, extends its use to predict the future, better understand the past, and prosper ...

His answer surprised me: “I don’t know how, I just know how to describe it.” Christensen described it well. He shared compelling examples. He argued that companies, and entire industries, can be ...

Disruptive innovations create new value, so users can achieve better results and, in many cases, more functionality. These innovations may be new applications or may replace traditional methods and ...

This article was originally published on ETFTrends.com. ETF investors seeking to capitalize on the big investment opportunities resulting from a rapidly developing world can look to some disruptive ...

Judging by the headlines in our various trade publications, whatever higher education’s next chapter looks like, it must be innovative — OR ELSE. Judging by the headlines in our various trade ...

Disruptive innovation isn’t just about simplifying technology — it also requires a new business model. The theory of disruptive innovation, first introduced in a 1995 HBR article, endures as a way to ...

A recent study and accompanying news story in the preeminent journal Nature provocatively concludes that disruptive innovation in science has dramatically and mysteriously declined 90% since 1945. The ...

Over the past year, we have spent much of our time thinking about how the theory of disruptive innovation describes (or does not) the future of higher ed. That may be why the much-too-early death of ...