While primarily a theoretical tool, the S-curve can have a practical impact when forecasting market changes and planning ...

Innovation drives the markets and creates cycles of consumer demand. No business can stay alive without competitive innovation, but it takes more than just a new player in town to disrupt a market. We ...

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 ...

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 ...

With start-ups driving and defining transformation and disruptive change across industries, what is the role of larger companies? Unable to compete with startups on focus and speed, large established ...

Disruption and innovation have become buzzwords, particularly in the world of business. And a large part of the reason behind that is Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen's theory of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though the business world glorifies big disruptive ideas, in reality, most progress is achieved by implementing hundreds or thousands of minor improvements that can have a big cumulative impact.