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 ...

China’s advancements in disruptive technologies are rapidly blurring the lines between science fiction and reality, from humanoid robots and a computer in the brain to encryption-shattering ...

The key element of disruptive versus sustaining innovation is the rate of technological change: not only is it much greater, but disruptive improvements occur faster than the rate at which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...