iPad’s Climb Up the Disruptive Innovation Cycle
Blockbuster’s recent bankruptcy filing was yet another chapter in the Clayton Christensen annals of disruptive innovation. A major brand with convenient locations that got disrupted by a website and the U.S. Mail. Note that we’re seeing the backend of the disruption, when it all seems so clear. How easy is it to see such a [...]
Google’s Disruption Leads to Commoditization
Bill Gurly wrote up a great piece on Google’s disruption in the navigation market. It is a great read to understand the impact Google’s new navigation ‘feature’ will have in that market. That’s right; Google will pay you to use their mobile OS. I like to call this the “less than free” business model. This [...]
Disruption is in the Minds of the Users
I’ve written before about two distinct approached to SaaS. SaaS/s – where the offering merely substitutes the incumbent offerings, and SaaS/v where the product adds a significant value into the mix. These two classifications, while admittedly fairly chunky, fall within the thrust of Clayton Christensen’s book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, in which Christensen contends that there [...]
