Innovation Disruptive innovation, first championed by Clayton Christensen, basically spells out a set of requirements necessary for a new technology to displace existing products.

At the same time, a networked technology provides a powerful incentive to adopt sustaining technologies at the expense of disruptive ones.

Christensen's distinction between the disruptive and the sustaining reflects a long-recognised dilemma of corporate strategists—whether to go for the big bang change or whether to shuffle along ...

And if a company is prepared to deal only with “sustaining technologies,” or technologies that improve product performance, and not disruptive technologies, it can fail.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. The concept of disruptive technology and its potential for predicting winners and losers in the semiconductor industry was explored by a panel of business and technology gurus ...

What should an established company do about a disruptive technology? Adobe, Netflix, and Best Buy are counterexamples of what the late professor prescribed.

Sectors in the midst of a disruptive transformation often experience a hybrid phase, in which the leading organizations do adopt the new technology, but they do so as a hybrid—a sustaining ...

Disruptive technologies are dismissed as toys because when they are first launched they “undershoot” user needs. This does not mean every product that looks like a toy will turn out to be the ...

May 29, 2019 Left behind: How disruptive technology may choose society’s winners and losers Additional findings from Airbnb study suggest black neighborhoods were frequently perceived as “shady” and ...