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 ...

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 ...

Citing historical precedents from other industries for comparison, the authors argue that the rotation models currently in place in many schools (where students switch between online and face-to-face ...

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 ...