Disruptive Innovation vs Incremental Improvement – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/21 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Colin Hung (@Colin_Hung) on the topic of “Disruptive Innovation vs Incremental Improvement”. The term “disruptive innovation” has been driven into our minds by technology and business media. It is the goal of many #HealthIT startups as well as innovation teams at healthcare organizations. Everyone is hoping that their technology or service will be labeled as the next disruptive innovation. I dare say that we are in danger of becoming so obsessed with being disruptive that we are ignoring the here-and-now. When Clayton Christensen coined the term “disruptive innovation” back in the 90s, he used a very strict definition: A process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors. In a more recent 2015 HBR article Christensen warns about labeling every improvement as disruptive: Many researchers, writers, and consultants use “disruptive innovation” to describe any situation in which an industry is shaken up and previously successful incumbents stumble. But that’s much too broad a usage. If we get sloppy with our labels or fail to integrate insights from subsequent research and experience into the original theory, then managers may end up using the wrong tools for the...
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