Discontinuous innovation deep dive
18 Exploiting Discontinuous Innovation
Activity – Exploring discontinuous innovation
Discontinuous innovation activity
The changing face of the imaging industry
This is a case study highlighting changes over time across the sector. Imaging case You might also be interested to read the responses of players like Fuji, Polaroid and Kodak.
The Maker revolution
New technologies around computer-aided design and manufacturing have finally matured to the point where almost anything you can imagine can be made using technologies like 3-D printing. In these videos Chris Anderson, of ‘Wired’ magazine, discusses the implications of this new industrial revolution. Video 1 Video 2
Disruptive innovation
In these two videos Professor Clayton Christensen explains his theory of disruptive innovation Extended lecture: Short version:
Search strategies for peripheral vision
This report looks at how a variety of companies and public sector organizations are exploring at the edges of their environment. It describes experiences with a wide range of search strategies to help identify and anticipate discontinuous innovation. Click here to access the report: Twelve searchstrategies
Polaroid
The problems which eventually dragged a famous technological innovator down into Chapter 11 bankruptcy are well-described in this presentation by Christian Sandstrom of Chalmers University. It is a good case because it highlights the deep difficulties involved – this wasn’t simply a matter of blindly missing the technological point but a much more challenging issue
Coloplast
Click to view case study: coloplast case updated version
Patterns of Discontinuous Innovation
Click to view exercise: Patterns of Discontinuity
Evolution of the Bicycle
This resource looks at the idea of innovation life cycles and patterns of change, using the example of the evolution of the bicycle from many experiments through to the emergence of a dominant design Click to view case study: The evolution of the bicycle

Activities

Cases

Deeper Dives
- Sector Innovation Patterns
- Search strategies for peripheral vision
- Responsible innovation framework
- Policy Deployment Cases
- Intelligent design
- High involvement innovation – deep dive
- Deep dive: Frugal innovation
- Deep dive – Supply chain learning
- Deep dive – Servitization
- Deep dive – Open and user led innovation – OUI
