Disruptive Innovation

Purposeful play offers a rich opportunity to learn by doing and adapt to disruptive change.

Which new ideas will revolutionize their industries? The history of one disruptive innovation offers clues.

The examples of Apple, Uber, and Tesla strengthen our ability to predict the impact of in-process innovations.

The fall 2023 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review examines innovation systems and strategies for business leaders.

Large incumbent companies should begin adopting blockchain before it gets used against them.

Gerald C. (Jerry) Kane, Rich Nanda, and Anh Phillips, authors of the book The Transformation Myth, outline the traits and principles essential for adapting to disruption, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic.

The most popular articles of 2020 gave companies and leaders insights on navigating disruption, uncertainty, and change.

The drive to develop new ideas and foster change during an emergency can be cultivated even without a crisis.

Developing truly innovative strategy requires workshopping your own company’s disruption.

Three uncertainties confront any disruptive innovation: technology, ecosystem, and business model.

There are four common misconceptions that leaders often succumb to when thinking about disruptive innovation.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional education models were poised to be disrupted.

To ensure success, entrepreneurs need to create two business plans: one for disruption and one for cooperation.

The current pandemic presents an opportunity for creativity to rethink skills development, worker protections, and health care.

Columbia’s Rita McGrath discusses how traditional businesses can compete with innovative upstarts.

Disruption detection and delusions, ethical implications of new technologies, and nudge engines.

This special issue looks at what it will take to innovate and compete over the next decade.

Clayton Christensen was more interested in getting to the right answer than in being right.

Innosight’s Scott Anthony explores why leaders repeatedly delude themselves about disruption.

Experience disrupters, leading up, COVID-19’s economic impact, and building effective teams.