This chapter combines disruptive innovation strategy (DIS) theory with the system dynamics (SD) modeling method. It presents a simulation model of the hard-disk (HD) maker population overshoot and collapse dynamics, showing that DIS can crucially affect the dynamics of the IT industry. Data from the HD maker industry help calibrate the parameters of the SD model and replicate the HD makers’ ove...

Seven years after the publication of two seminal reports by the Institute of Medicine, To Err Is Human (IOM, 2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (IOM, 2001), which documented uneven quality, dangers, and inconsistencies in health care delivery, a majority of the nation’s health care providers are still struggling with those same challenges. Simultaneously, a backlash against the managed-care s...

Purpose – The speed and variety of new business models emerging in the current economy created a disruptive environment that lacks theoretical frameworks and perspectives to help academics, practitioners and policy makers to critically understand and appraise the phenomenon of new business models emergence. This paper addresses this neglect by discussing the phenomenon of service innovation fro...

Health reform requires safety net settings to transform care delivery, but how they will innovate in order to achieve this transformation is unknown. Two series of key informant interviews (N = 28) were conducted in 2012 with leadership from both California's public hospital systems and community health centers. Interviews focused on how innovation was conceptualized and solicited examples of s...

Whilst it is clear that technology is crucial to advance healthcare: innovation in medicine is not just about high-tech tools, new procedures or genome discoveries. In constrained environments, healthcare providers often create unexpected solutions to provide adequate healthcare to patients. These inexpensive but effective frugal innovations may be imperfect, but they have the power to ensure t...

This paper describes a research approach based on the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to interpret and understand the Korea’s strategy for the development of the ubiquitous city (u-city). Analyzing empirical materials from u-city development, this study traces and unpacks the interaction occurring around the u-city innovation and also identifies patterns of innovation, concentrating on negotiation a...

In diesem Beitrag diskutieren wir die Idee, Konzepte aus den Bereichen der CommunityUnterstützung und ubiquitären Benutzungsschnittstellen auf die Förderung der Fähigkeit zu diskontinuierlicher Innovation in Unternehmen anzuwenden. Unser Fokus liegt dabei auf der frühen Phase des Innovationsprozesses – der Ideengenerierung und kooperativen Ideenvernetzung. Kernidee des Ansatzes ist es, Awarenes...

This paper outlines a framework for the study of innovation that treats discoveries as additions to evolving networks. As inventions enter they expand or limit the reach of the ideas they build on by influencing how successive discoveries use those ideas. The approach is grounded in novel measures of the extent to which an innovation amplifies or disrupts the status quo. Those measures index th...