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Read time: 3 minutes One of the most intelligent, inspiring, and influential thought leaders in the world of innovation was lost with the passing of Clayton Christensen . His work in the theory of disruption has had, and will continue to have, impact on how executives lead their companies in a world of constant change. Unfortunately, despite his best efforts, the term “disruption” remains confusing to many, if not most of the practitioners in the fields of strategy and innovation. For Christensen, disruption had a very specific meaning: a lower-end substitute eating away at the market for higher-end products until it eventually surpasses and replaces them (to over-simplify it)
1 Comment - The innovation community has suffered a huge loss with the death of Mr Christensen. I was the digital output division of Kodak when he added us one of the primary victims of disruptive innovation
How to Overcome Challenges in Building a Successful Innovation Incubator Cory A. Christensen, Seed Global Business Platform Corteva Agriscience™ Originally presented: February 20, 2020 Watch time: 56 minutes Access the Webcast An innovator’s journey often begins with optimism weighed down by the realization that making a decision is the heaviest object carried in the pack. And while there may be a road map to a desired outcome, like most journeys, you’ll experience pitfalls and miracles along the way. What Cory Christensen of Corteva Agriscience learned from his innovation trek is how to build a disruptive innovation competency within an established, multi-national business with history spanning a century
The video expands ideas from other innovation leaders such as Clayton Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma) and Geoffrey Moore (Crossing the Chasm)
And if the product does a crummy job, we ‘fire’ it and look around for something else we might hire to solve the problem.” - Clayton M. Christensen The jobs-to-be-done framework offers a focused way of understanding customer needs
Chan and Mauborgne, Renee, “Blue Ocean Strategy: From Theory to Practice,” HBR Press (2005). 3The term “disruptive innovation” was coined by Clayton Christensen in his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma.” Christensen, C., “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” HBS Press (1997)
Goldense, Bradford L., "The Journey to Mastering Innovation," Machine Design, November 12, 2015, Volume 87, Number 11, Page 96, ISSN 0024-9114.
Goldense, Bradford L., "Breakthrough Innovation: Nine Techniques," Machine Design, May 2016, Volume 88, Number 5, Page 96, ISSN 0024-9114.
[Read more] PDMA Webcast | February 20, 2020 How to Overcome Challenges in Building a Successful Innovation Incubator Cory A. Christensen An innovator’s journey often begins with optimism weighed down by the realization that making a decision is the heaviest object carried in the pack
(Steve Jobs) Great Voc research focuses on what the customer is trying to do and what makes it hard or easy to get it done. clayton christensen and his colleagues describe it in particularly colorful terms: “When customers find that they need to get a job done, they ‘hire’ products or services to do the job