Innovation: In your opinions, is it disruptive? How?
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The word is used as the title for Business Impact Report - December 2011: Disruptive Innovation
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Cleopatra F.
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Dear Lim,
Innovation can be "disruptive" for the injured party, market, business being replaced,etc. "Sustaining innovation" is the opposite of disruptive innovation for it can create healthy progress. Disruptive technology can be good for customers awaiting new breakthroughs. All technology that is invented is prone to evolve, upgrade, and replace the outdated. Thus, disruptive technology is part of the ongoing process.
The term disruptive technology could at first glance be defined as technology that is not beneficial -this in my opinion could include:
defective products, harmful products, technology that could be put to wrong use in the wrong hands. Technology goes into several stages, it can bring about better or worse. Humans generally rely on technology for a faster and more efficient mode of living.
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Scott N.
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Disruptive Innovation is when the process or product leads to fundamental changes in a business or society. The assembly line, rock and roll, PCs, and MP3 players are all good examples. It is easy to confuse market leaders as disruptive innovators, but that is rarely the case. Apple makes very good products and are successful at marketing them, but MP3 players, smart phones and tablets were created elsewhere. OTOH, sometimes the market leader can also be an innovator in the way they approach the market. Microsoft became the leader in their space by having PC manufacturers pre-load their software. Dell became a leader by adding extras to new machines, then by managing a lean inventory while delivering custom configurations.
Kenneth L.
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Dramatic innovation proceeds by dramatic disruption. As has already been noted, Apple applied one of the most dramatic innovation programs ever seen with its products in recent years and changed the course of a market.
The next dramatic innovations in my view will be "Cloud Based" and services oriented. All the fascination about terminal hardware applications will be over in the near future.
The "Cloud" and SAS will rock the hardware and software world and make access to technology easier for vast populations. Devices to do so will cost pennies on the current dollar or the will be free.
Like the PC makers, the sun is already setting on cell phone devices, associated applications, OTS packaged software and related products. Even though these products are enjoying current popularity They are expensive and will be rapidly overtaken by tight economics and services competition.
Smart,strategic planners are pointing to the future and it is not a hardware and licensed software market - it is service oriented with low cost access and rates. Volume, free products, advertising and shareware will drive it all.
Possible exceptions for a bit longer period of time are the high-end hardware and software technologies in government contracting, which for security reasons must be cloistered, protected and safeguarded. Your friendly government agency will be the last to boot its PC out the window.
For those interested in innovation and how it disrupts, check out this TED talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation.html
Also, for those interested in “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education”, there will be a live stream of TEDxAshokaU at Arizona State University this Friday night, 2/10/12 from 5-9pm Mountain Time. Email me if you would like access to the live stream.
http://www.tedxashokau.com/
Dr. Clifford S. S.
Expert in Brain Reprogramming, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Facilitation and Innovation
I think 'innovation' or creating something new or different always has the potential of being disruptive.
It depends on the context.
Sometimes a kicked pebble can cause an avalanche and sometimes not.
Like others have noted here as well, we may not start out wishing to disrupt an environment but disruption becomes an unintended consequence of what we do.
My favourite current example of innovation, that will create disruption, is the effect that brain research and the study of neuroplasticity will have on industrial problems. This innovative science holds the potential of rehearsing away the change management problem or rehearsing away the fear of hubris.
Imagine being able to do things you had never imagined imagining before -now THATs disruptive!
Good question.
Whereas "disruption" is that which significantly and involuntarily changes the status quo, examples based on that definition generally don't provide opportunities for predictable benefit. Disruptive Innovation (phrase coined by Clay Christensen) on the other hand, refers to a more specific and actionable set of events which do provide such opportunities and as such, warrant special attention. While all of the examples in the publication referenced adhere to the more general definition, only some qualify as the latter.
We discuss and explore these latter examples (and others) in the Disruptive Innovation group at LinkedIn, for which I will enter the URL in the space provided be
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William T. C.
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Disruptive - Only at times IE microprocessor, PC, iPad, etc.
Prasanna S.
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Innovation is not done with the goal of causing disruption. Its done to solve a problem. However, the application of the innovation, its impact or its consequence could be disruptive.
Disruptive innovation is very rare and accidental, often beyond the expectations or control of the innovators. More common is evolutionary innovation like what the japanese do. They innovate to improve on their products.
Richard F.
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innovation is disruptive in that it affects what is considered the norm. apple is a classic example in terms of its impact on society and consumers not to mention its competitors.
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How many pay phones have you seen lately?
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Innovation can be disruptive...but sometimes you need to disrupt a process that is no longer productive.
Noel M.
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I thought the whole point was that innovation (technology or otherwise) is disruptive, otherwise what's the point? If it doesn't change the status quo, whether for better or worse, it's not really innovation.
