Disruptive Innovation
Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
SCMS School of Technology and Management
Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114
Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
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Disruptive Innovation
• A disruptive innovation is
an innovation that creates a
new market and value
network and eventually
disrupts an existing market
and value network,
displacing established
market leading firms,
products and alliances.
Disruptive Innovation
• Not all innovations are
disruptive, even if they are
revolutionary. For example, the
first automobiles in the late 19th
century were not a disruptive
innovation, because early
automobiles were expensive
luxury items that did not disrupt
the market for horse-drawn
vehicles. The market for
transportation essentially
remained intact until the debut
of the lower-priced Ford Model T
in 1908.
Disruptive Innovation
• The mass-produced
automobile was a
disruptive innovation,
because it changed the
transportation market,
whereas the first thirty
years of automobiles did
not.
Disruptive Innovation
• The business environment of
market leaders does not
allow them to pursue
disruptive innovations when
they first arise, because they
are not profitable enough at
first and because their
development can take scarce
resources away from
sustaining innovations.
Disruptive Innovation
• A disruptive process can take
longer to develop than by the
conventional approach and
the risk associated to it is
higher than the other more
incremental or evolutionary
forms of innovations, but
once it is deployed in the
market, it achieves a much
faster penetration and higher
degree of impact on the
established markets.
Disruptive Innovation
• The term was coined by
Clayton M. Christensen and
defines a disruptive
innovation as a product or
service designed for a new
set of customers.
Disruptive Innovation
• Christensen argues that
disruptive innovations can
hurt successful, well-
managed companies that
are responsive to their
customers and have
excellent research and
development.
Disruptive Innovation
• Christensen distinguishes
between "low-end
disruption", which targets
customers who do not need
the full performance valued
by customers at the high end
of the market, and "new-
market disruption", which
targets customers who have
needs that were previously
unserved by existing
incumbents.
Examples
• Category – Academia.
• Disruptive innovation –
Wikipedia.
• Market disrupted by innovation -
Traditional encyclopaedias.
• Traditional, for-profit general
encyclopaedias with articles
written by paid experts have
been displaced by Wikipedia, an
online encyclopedia which is
written and edited by volunteer
editors.
Examples
• Category – Communication.
• Disruptive innovation – Personal
Computers.
• Market disrupted by innovation –
Minicomputers, work stations.
• Minicomputers were originally
presented as an inexpensive
alternative to mainframes and
mainframe manufacturers did
not consider them a serious
threat in their market.
Examples
• Category – Medical.
• Disruptive innovation –
Ultrasound.
• Market disrupted by innovation –
X-ray imaging.
• Ultrasound technology is
disruptive relative to X-ray
imaging. Ultrasound was a new-
market disruption. None of the
X-ray companies participated in
ultrasound until they acquired
major ultrasound equipment
companies.
Disruptive technology - Manu Melwin Joy

Disruptive technology - Manu Melwin Joy

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    Prepared By Manu MelwinJoy Assistant Professor SCMS School of Technology and Management Kerala, India. Phone – 9744551114 Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com Kindly restrict the use of slides for personal purpose. Please seek permission to reproduce the same in public forms and presentations.
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    Disruptive Innovation • Adisruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leading firms, products and alliances.
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    Disruptive Innovation • Notall innovations are disruptive, even if they are revolutionary. For example, the first automobiles in the late 19th century were not a disruptive innovation, because early automobiles were expensive luxury items that did not disrupt the market for horse-drawn vehicles. The market for transportation essentially remained intact until the debut of the lower-priced Ford Model T in 1908.
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    Disruptive Innovation • Themass-produced automobile was a disruptive innovation, because it changed the transportation market, whereas the first thirty years of automobiles did not.
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    Disruptive Innovation • Thebusiness environment of market leaders does not allow them to pursue disruptive innovations when they first arise, because they are not profitable enough at first and because their development can take scarce resources away from sustaining innovations.
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    Disruptive Innovation • Adisruptive process can take longer to develop than by the conventional approach and the risk associated to it is higher than the other more incremental or evolutionary forms of innovations, but once it is deployed in the market, it achieves a much faster penetration and higher degree of impact on the established markets.
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    Disruptive Innovation • Theterm was coined by Clayton M. Christensen and defines a disruptive innovation as a product or service designed for a new set of customers.
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    Disruptive Innovation • Christensenargues that disruptive innovations can hurt successful, well- managed companies that are responsive to their customers and have excellent research and development.
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    Disruptive Innovation • Christensendistinguishes between "low-end disruption", which targets customers who do not need the full performance valued by customers at the high end of the market, and "new- market disruption", which targets customers who have needs that were previously unserved by existing incumbents.
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    Examples • Category –Academia. • Disruptive innovation – Wikipedia. • Market disrupted by innovation - Traditional encyclopaedias. • Traditional, for-profit general encyclopaedias with articles written by paid experts have been displaced by Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia which is written and edited by volunteer editors.
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    Examples • Category –Communication. • Disruptive innovation – Personal Computers. • Market disrupted by innovation – Minicomputers, work stations. • Minicomputers were originally presented as an inexpensive alternative to mainframes and mainframe manufacturers did not consider them a serious threat in their market.
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    Examples • Category –Medical. • Disruptive innovation – Ultrasound. • Market disrupted by innovation – X-ray imaging. • Ultrasound technology is disruptive relative to X-ray imaging. Ultrasound was a new- market disruption. None of the X-ray companies participated in ultrasound until they acquired major ultrasound equipment companies.