The document discusses the differences between innovation and disruption. Innovation typically involves incremental changes that optimize existing processes and systems, while disruption involves fundamentally changing technologies, business models, or social structures. Disruption often stems from creativity and lateral thinking applied to unsolved problems, enabling entirely new opportunities. While innovation improves existing ecosystems, disruption may require creating new ecosystems to succeed. Disruption has far-reaching, paradigm-shifting impacts and opens up opportunities that never previously existed.

1. DISRUPTION &
INNOVATION

2. INNOVATION DISRUPTION
Nature
 Incremental in nature
 Gives an extension of life to status
quo
 May not have a learning curve
 A movement by itself, leading to
new following and evangelism
 Fundamental in nature
 Most likely to have a learning curve
Origin
 Originates from within the domain
 Counts on domain expertise
 Born out of compulsion
 More often, revolves around the
process and techniques in place
 Change in group thinking and want
of efficiency and sophistication
 Technology is an enabler
 More often, result of creativity and
lateral thinking
 Unconstrained thinking and
application of knowledge in
unexplored horizons
 Instigated by unsolved and new
problems
 Advent of new technologies and
techniques
 Change in business/social thinking
 Technology can be an enabler or
the root cause

3. INNOVATION DISRUPTION
Dependencies
 Target eco-system to consume the
benefits must exist
 Critical need for optimization or
efficiency
 Target eco-system may or may not
exist; may need to be created from
the scratch
Success
 Depends on the acceptance of the
targeted group
 Measured as savings in cost, time
and money
 Measured in terms of replication
and repeatability
 Depends on the acceptance and
adoption on a wider basis
 Hard to measure in early stages
 Measured in terms of benefits
offered by new opportunities and
innovations in respective domains

4. INNOVATION DISRUPTION
Impact
 Impacts a small or subset of
potential target group/process
 Impacts are far reaching
 Could create a paradigm-shifts in
understanding and use
 Offers a new lease of life even to
related activities and processes
Course
 Can spawn further innovations of
similar type and scale
 Can be easily displaced with
commoditization effect
 Opens up a new opportunity that
never existed before
 Could result in cross-domain
applications
 Could be the source for new
innovations
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5. INNOVATION DISRUPTION
Observations
 Rarely, becomes a disruption
 New and existing technologies acts
as enablers
 Change is visible only in the
periphery
 Impact of failure is very small as it
can be recovered quickly with
back to status quo
 More often pins on new, untested,
cross-domain application of
technologies
 Cross-discipline in nature
 Change is at the root and shifts the
nature altogether
 Can result in irrecoverable
if fails
Few Examples
 NeoNurture Incubator - Built from
automotive parts
 Square – Tiny payment platform
 Plant & Animal Fat based Bio-Diesel
 Straddling Bus
 Kinkajou Microfilm Projectors
 Mobile Banking
 Internet of Things
 Drones
 3D Printing
 Language Translation
 NetFlix