Beyond Disruption

Notes

Chapter 1

1. 1. See World Health Organization, “World Report on Vision,” 2019.

2. 2. Google Trends show that the relative search interest in the term disruption has been on a continuous rise. It has quadrupled over the last score, indicating the increasing popularity for the term. The term was popularized to no small extent by Clayton Christensen’s influential work on disruptive technology and innovation. See his seminal work, The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997). While his theory is conceived and developed based on low-end disruption as he saw that it causes great firms to fail, the public has been using the term in a broader context to describe the innovation ...