Disruptive Innovation and Digital Transformation

CHAPTER 2

Modeling Theories of Disruptive Innovation

There are decades of published works on disruptive innovation. We covered the theories and how each evolved the original theory. Now we must reconcile the various models of disruptive innovation. There are several popular models of disruptive innovation published by leading business management schools: “Four Elements of the Theory of Disruptive Innovation” (King et al, 2015) published in an article in MIT Sloan Management Review, and “The Disruptive Innovation Model” published in The Innovator’s Solution (Christensen et al, 2003) by Harvard Business Review Press (later updated in a Harvard Business Review article, “What is Disruptive Innovation?” (Christensen et al, 2015). There is another ...