Disruption

Systems Thinking Opportunities for Innovation

Systems complexity results from the interdependence of its parts. Each part of the system has the ability to impact and ease change across, and within, other areas of the system. The result is that the impact of one action, or choice, on the system…

Immigrant Pathways to Innovation

Immigrant pathways to innovation are neither obvious nor automatic. The same homeostatic mechanisms that keep up a nation or company’s culture, values, beliefs, assumptions, and traditions often limit the successful introduction of new ideas, ways of doing, and routes of…

Disruptive Innovation & Undermining Incumbents

In a global economy the business’ culture will determine what opportunities are exploited and those that are missed. In a recent article of the MIT Sloan Review, researchers King and Baartartogtokh (2015) investigated Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation to…