Where do disruptive innovations come from? What are disruptive innovations? Disruptive innovations cause displacements and discontinuities, but they also activate new developmental possibilities. By better defining the origin and outcomes of disruption, we increase our ability to forecast and engineer disruptive technologies.
Author Archives: Nikhil Kalathil
Viability in Pools of Possibility
Innovators search over pools of inventive possibilities, looking for ideas that will be viable. Formal and informal rules govern this search and dictate technological and civil trajectories.
Story Book
A Tale of Putting Theories Into Action, Creating a Process, and Helping Clients Win $15,000.
Google Glass Methodologies
Explanation of methodologies used in our study Shattered Glass: Killing Google Glass Claim: Our calculations tell us that to appeal to average smartphone users, Glass would have to be 210% more valuable than smartphones are. ************ There are two ways we can estimated 1) Taking from market data 2) Estimating with our equation This gives …
Shattered Glass: Killing Google Glass
Entranced by a desire to disrupt, Google killed Glass, despite the product’s niche market viability
Forecasting and Influencing Innovation
New ideas and inventions succeed when a critical number of their technological, social, cultural, political, economic, or environmental problems are sovled. We dissect an idea, and consider the set of problems that it generate for two purposes. 1.) To forecast the chances of that idea succeeding 2.) To guide that idea towards maturity and increase it’s chance’s of success.
A Navigation System for Disruption
We aim to leverage your expertise through our models and frameworks to help you: 1. Ask Better Questions 2. Arrive at Better Assumptions 3. Better Test Assumptions