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Looking back on disruptive innovation theory and preparing for smarter crowdsourcing.
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Innovation Strategy
The Innovator’s Legacy
In an Q&A with a longtime collaborator, Christensen offered reflections on his influential work.
Paul Michelman
Innovation Strategy
Disruption 2020: An Interview With Clayton M. Christensen
Christensen’s Theory of Disruptive Innovation offers insights in an age of big data and tech growth.
Clayton M. Christensen, interviewed by Karen Dillon
Business Models
Navigating the Contested Rise of Fintech
Fintech adoption carries threats as well as opportunities. Managers’ decisions must evaluate both.
Tatjana Schneidmüller, Mariano L.M. Heyden, and Henk W. Volberda
Developing Strategy
How a Group of NASA Renegades Transformed Mission Control
Lessons on how to balance efficiency and innovation from NASA’s rebel innovators.
Loizos Heracleous, Christina Wawarta, Steven Gonzalez, and Sotirios Paroutis
Business Models
Four Ways to Get Your Innovation Unit to Work
When it comes to competing on innovation for companies, imitation rarely works.
Jürgen Stetter
Business Models
How to Read and Respond to Weak Digital Signals
In a fast-changing business landscape, it pays to spot digital trends early and prepare to adapt.
Venkat Venkatraman
Disruption
Nondisruptive Creation: Rethinking Innovation and Growth
It’s time to embrace the idea that companies can create without destroying.
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Analytics & Business Intelligence
How Big Data and AI Are Driving Business Innovation in 2018
A new survey reports companies are now seeing a direct correlation between big data and AI success.
Randy Bean
Business Models
Welcome to the Coherence Economy
A major economic shift is happening — from the experience economy to the coherence economy.
Uri Sarid
Culture
Why China Is the World’s Innovation Role Model
China continues to be the best place to go to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
Leslie Brokaw
AI & Machine Learning
How Big Data Is Empowering AI and Machine Learning at Scale
The synergism of Big Data and artificial intelligence holds amazing promise for business.
Randy Bean
Disruption
Not All Digital Threats Are Disruptions
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Theodore Kinni
Disruption
Four Reasons Your Company May Be Susceptible to Disruption
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Theodore Kinni
Business Models
The Real Lessons From Kodak’s Decline
The key lessons from Kodak’s failure to adapt to digital disruption aren’t what you think they are.
Willy Shih
Business Models
Five Steps to Strategic Sustainability and Abundance
The success of mobile money pioneer M-Pesa shows how addressing sustainability issues opens new opportunities.
Jay Friedlander
Developing Strategy
Debating Disruptive Innovation
Three experts provide their responses to the article “How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?”
Juan Pablo Vázquez Sampere, Martin J. Bienenstock, and Ezra W. Zuckerman
Developing Strategy
Keep Calm and Manage Disruption
Businesses are averting disruption by beating their new competition, joining them, or waiting them out.
Joshua S. Gans
Developing Strategy
From the Editor: Disruption Everywhere?
The Fall 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights two themes: developing tomorrow’s leaders, and disruption.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Developing Strategy
How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?
How well does Clayton M. Christensen’s theory describe what actually transpires in business?