Disruptive Innovation … in Reverse: Adding a Geographical Dimension to Disruptive Innovation Theory

Disruptive Innovation: In Need of Better Theory

C hristensen’s (1997) original theory focused on disruptive technologies. Over time, the same theory has been used to explain all kinds of disruptive innovations. This is a mistake. Different kinds of innovations have different competitive effects and produce different kinds of markets. They should be treated as distinct phenomena. This article summarizes what the academic literature has to say...

RFID as a Disruptive Innovation

The first part of the paper discusses Wal-Mart’s adoption of RFID through the theoretical lens of the Resources, Processes, and Values (RPV) innovation theory. This part makes a theoretical argument that WalMart adopted RFID as a sustaining innovation – an incremental improvement in supply chain identification technology. The second part reviews a representative sample of IS literature in order...

Disruptive Innovation in Laboratory Medicine.

Over the last 5 decades, laboratory medicine has witnessed a remarkable wave of innovations that transformed the field from a peripheral to a central player in healthcare delivery. These advances enabled the introduction and performance of new tests on a large scale, some in a decentralized setting, in an accurate and a precise manner, thus leading to better diagnosis, more accurate prediction ...

Overcoming Barriers to Disruptive Innovation in Networking

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Overcoming Barriers to Disruptive Innovation in Networking