Disruptive Technology Abstract The objective of this project is to explain the emergence of disruptive technology in the IT industry that will enable and help the organizations growth in a cost effective manner. One of the hottest topics in today’s IT corridors is the uses and benefits of virtualization technologies. IT companies all over the globe are executing virtualization for a diversity of business requirements‚ driven by prospects to progress server flexibility and decrease operational
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Harvard Business School professor‚ Clayton M. Christensen in his book Innovators Dilemma‚ introduces the concept of disruptive technologies. In his book Christensen divides technology into two groups‚ sustaining and disruptive. Sustaining a technology requires continuous and incremental improvements to an already established technology. Disruptive technology lacks refinement. This technology often has performance problems because firstly it appeals to a limited audience‚ secondly it is new and lastly
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Living Case Study As stated by Clayton Christensen‚ disruptive innovation enhances the original business model of a product or organization‚ and changes it; where a product use to only be accessible to a select group of people‚ it is now presented in a much simpler way and accessible to a larger and broader population. Christensen states that the product or organization “takes root” as a simple application‚ and then is disrupted by something. Co-owner Laura Patrick was smart in that she was the
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McKinsey Global Institute May 2013 Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life‚ business‚ and the global economy The McKinsey Global Institute The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI)‚ the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company‚ was established in 1990 to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving global economy. Our goal is to provide leaders in the commercial‚ public‚ and social sectors with the facts and insights on which to base management and policy
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Disruptive Technologies and Competitive Forces A disruptive product‚ service or technology is an innovation which creates a new marketplace and a new value web. It eventually goes on to “disrupt” an existing market environment and value web. Portable tablet computers from Apple have come and gone before‚ such as Apple’s “Newton” in the 1990s which was eventually discontinued in 1998 following poor sales. The iPad‚ launched in 2010‚ looks like it will be different. It is a beautifully designed product
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Disruptive technology is any new thing‚ or innovative that helps produces a fresh market‚ causing disruption in an existing market. Disruptive technology is something that shakes up the current situation or trend in the industry. Disruptive technology can cause a shift of leadership in the industry. An example of disruptive technology would be the Google Glass. With the Google Glass‚ consumers were able to communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands. The principles behind disruptive
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Disruptive technologies are not always disruptive to customers‚ and often take a long time before they are significantly disruptive to established companies. They are often difficult to recognize. Indeed‚ as Christensen points out and studies have shown‚ it is often entirely rational for incumbent companies to ignore disruptive innovations‚ since they compare so badly with existing technologies or products‚ and the deceptively small market available for a disruptive innovation is often very small
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3M: Profile of an Innovating Company 1 Case 1 Richard Ivey School of Business — The University of Western Ontario WAVERIDER COMMUNICATIONS‚ INC.: THE WIRELESS LAST MILE 21 Case 21 Harvard Business School POM Cases Disruptive Technology a Heartbeat Away: Ecton‚ Inc. 35 Case 35 Richard Ivey School of Business — The University of Western Ontario ACER GROUP’S R&D STRATEGY − THE CHINA DECISION 54 Case 54 Harvard Business School POM Cases Hewlett−Packard:
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As described by Clayton Christensen‚ a "disruptive technology is a new technological innovation‚ product or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or product in the market". A disruptive product can also be described as a product that substitutes another product because of its superior features and performance. The iPad is a product that is considered by many experts to be a disruptive technology because it was the first tablet to offer such elaborate complexity and product
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Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Overdorf HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW March-April 2000 T HESE ARE SCARY TIMES FOR MANAGERS in big companies. Even before the Internet and globalization‚ their track record for dealing with major‚ disruptive change was not good. Out of hundreds of department stores‚ for example‚ only oneDayton Hudson-became a leader in discount retailing. Not one of the minicomputer companies succeeded in the personal computer business
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