Disruptive Innovation - Some pointers

To start with, here's an excerpt from a post I'd written a short while ago around disruptive social innovation. "Disruptive innovation is about creating something that fundamentally shifts the way things are done. Using analogies from Systems Thinking, the whole world is a complex web of interactions that localise around tightly linked processes that are all loosely linked to other localised processes. Disrupting the norm in one small area then, can have a follow on effect to the way the whole world works."
The guy who's written the most around Disruptive Innovation is Clayton Christensen. Here's a snapshot of his model.
You can also preview some of his books on Google Books. I think the latest one is called Seeing What's Next

• A more detailed overview can be found on the 12manage website: http://www.12manage.com/methods_christensen_disruptive_innovation.html
• One of the more interesting books on innovation is the Medici Effect, which you can download for free off the web.
• I like the Systems Thinking approach, but here's an article around some diagnostic tools for innovation you might want to look at: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4300.html
• A good blog around innovation is in the BusinessWeek Online -- NussbaumOnDesign

Other concepts worth looking at in relation to disruptive innovation are Design Thinking and some of the principles behind User Centred Design. I'll cover these a bit more in a future post.