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As the leader of one of the world’s first smartphone development projects, and having consulted for six years with Harvard Prof. Clayton Christensen as he translated his theory of disruptive ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) fellow John Cohn knows a thing or two about innovation. He has 116 patents and 36 technical papers to his name, and has helped direct IBM through four decades of computing innovation.

Education policy scholars, especially proponents of school choice, have long referenced the late Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovation. Christensen, along with his colleague Joseph Bower ...

This article is taken from an exclusive WIRED series, '41 Lessons from Uber's Success', featuring Tim Harford, Rachel Botsman, Nir Eyal, Clayton M Christensen, Josh Elman, Carlo Ratti and Richard ...

Have you experienced the “Big Bang” feeling of a new idea? While it often comes at the lamest times (singing in the shower), the aftermath can be sensational — like a star bursting brilliantly from ...

Disruptive innovation can attend to a market that is currently badly served. It can also present an outstanding relay to seek alpha in a return environment that has become less inclined to respond to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Best practices, scalable, transformational — there’s been a consistent flow of business buzzwords making their way into healthcare, and one of the latest is “disruptive innovation.” But an article in ...

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 ...

Disruptive innovation has toppled several of the market's largest companies. But IBM's John Cohn explains how leaders can balance incremental and longer-term innovation to keep from becoming disrupted ...