Discussion Leader Reflection

I will be the first to admit that I wasn’t looking forward to developing the discussion leader paper and presentation.  However, I first started getting “hooked” when I read my chosen article from the Harvard Business Review entitled “Reinventing Your Business Model”. I have enjoyed deep diving into Christensens theories of disruptive innovations and have thought a lot on how to enable this.  The article provided a good framework to think about shaping a business organization to enable successful disruptive innovations.

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Reinventing Your Business Model

I have become very interested in learning how Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation theories explain the events that have, and continue to, shape innovation today.  Having a career that has spanned over the past 20 years, primarily in technology-enabled organizations, the more I read about disruptive innovation and business model theories, the more I can relate them directly to some of my own work experiences.  It’s one of those “if I knew then what I know now” things. The Harvard Business Review article, “Reinventing Your Business Model”, touches on the primary factor to enabling disruptive innovations to occur.  Without an innovation-driven ecosystem, disruptive innovation cannot occur. 

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