Clayton Christensen - Disruptive Innovation in Education and Healthcare

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The ability of technology to "disrupt" long-established business practices - dramatically changing the landscape of industries by increasing access, cutting costs, and revolutionizing delivery - has been a subject discussed for decades and is the topic of Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen's iconic volumes, The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution. Yet, as Christensen has observed, these radical, innovation-driven transformations have been largely absent in the education and health industries--perhaps the two most important arenas of everyday life.

In two new books, Disrupting Class and The Innovator's Prescription, Christensen and coauthors address how new technology might upend familiar institutions and fundamentally alter the way schooling and health care are delivered. The Business Innovation Factory is proud to sponsor this invitation only lunch with eminent innovation expert and BIF advisor Clayton Christensen.