Innovation Disruptive innovation, first championed by Clayton Christensen, basically spells out a set of requirements necessary for a new technology to displace existing products.

Christensen's distinction between the disruptive and the sustaining reflects a long-recognised dilemma of corporate strategists—whether to go for the big bang change or whether to shuffle along ...

And if a company is prepared to deal only with “sustaining technologies,” or technologies that improve product performance, and not disruptive technologies, it can fail.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. The concept of disruptive technology and its potential for predicting winners and losers in the semiconductor industry was explored by a panel of business and technology gurus ...

Disruptive technologies are dismissed as toys because when they are first launched they “undershoot” user needs. This does not mean every product that looks like a toy will turn out to be the ...