Clayton Christensen
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Tributes paid to towering ‘ultimate disrupter’ Clayton Christensen
- Innovation
- February 6, 2020, 04:15
Clayton Christensen, the management thinker who conceived and developed the idea of “disruptive innovation” and influenced generations of business stu(...)

Leadership needs to neutralise innovation blockers – and here’s how
- Innovation
- January 16, 2020, 04:15
A frequently quoted survey by consulting firm McKinsey suggests that 94 per cent of executives are dissatisfied by their firm’s innovation efforts, de(...)

Goodbye to all that creative destruction
- Innovation
- December 18, 2019, 13:48
One Financial Times article that caught my eye this week concerned the success of Meituan Dianping, whose “Everything app” enables Chinese consumers t(...)

Slack committed to growing its Dublin office amid EMEA expansion
- Innovation
- June 15, 2017, 07:45
A senior Slack technologist says the software company is committed to expansion in Ireland by the end of the year as part of plans for growth in the E(...)

New use for ‘innovation’ as prop for Trump agenda
- Innovation
- April 13, 2017, 05:58
It is often observed that the word “innovation” has been so overused in recent years it has become all but meaningless. It long ago became a corporate(...)

Are Uber protesters latter-day Luddites or laudable activists?
- Business
- February 1, 2016, 09:00
Last Tuesday, France was gripped by huge strikes, with an estimated 130,000-150,000 protesting across the country. In that age-old French tradition, a(...)

Lucy Kellaway: My new rule of competition begins with a war on ‘talent’
- Work
- October 19, 2015, 01:00
On the cover of the latest Harvard Business Review it says in huge letters “The New Rules of Competition”. Underneath are three bullet points, highlig(...)

Innovation talk: Disruption of disruption theory only an interruption
- Business
- December 8, 2014, 01:00
This has been the year that disruption got disrupted. Or, avoiding the hyperbole, 2014 has been the year when Clayton Christensen’s famous theory of d(...)

Innovation disrupted by warring gurus
- Business
- August 20, 2014, 01:00
Last week, I described the responses of music and book publishers to digital technology. The evolution of these industries illustrates the “innovator’(...)

Disruptive innovation theory proves divisive
- Business
- July 14, 2014, 01:05
Economics, literary criticism, political science, anthropology – just some of the academic fields that have given us high-profile intellectual dispute(...)