"Virtual Learning Hits Campaign Trail"The Huffington Post - 2008/08/19
The propogation of virtual classrooms may be just on the horizon; John McCain offers to fund virtual learning with up to $1 billion per year.
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"How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education"Harvard Business School - 2008/08/18
A Q&A session with Christensen, Horn, and Johnson regarding disruptive improvements to education.
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"How to Change the Way Kids Learn"Forbes - 2008/08/11
The only way student-centric education models will transform the classrooms is to break out of the current system with a disruptive approach to technology.
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"Did outsourcing cripple Hewlett-Packard?"The Oregonian - 2008/08/10
How Hewlett Packard's ink-jet business was overturned when it failed to adapt to disruptive improvements in the marketplace.
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"Children should not be judged by test scores"columbiatribune.com - 2008/08/07
Expecting the same level of proficiency from all students is a mistake, and does not tailor education to individual needs like a disruptive solution.
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"These Go to Eleven."eduwonk.com - 2008/08/07
Candid approval for Dr. Christensen's Disrupting Class.
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"MSU Coach Tom Izzo Listens and Learns at Online Education Gathering in Lansing"MarketWatch - 2008/08/06
Tom Izzo senses a big future for virtual classrooms, falling in line with Dr. Christensen's prediction that more than 50% of high school courses will be online by the year 2019.
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"Disruptive innovation and the market state lead to a collision..."Changing Higher Education - 2008/08/05
Lloyd Armstrong predicts a collision in the marketplace as St. George's education model improves and provides competition in a previously uncontested area.
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"New methods needed to revolutionize schooling"USA Today - 2008/07/15
The focus on education is falling out of sight, and a disruptive solution is called for: the adoption of online technologies and virtual classrooms.
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"Public school evolution"The Denver Post - 2008/07/11
Dr. Christensen predicts that by the time our current kindergartners are in college, roughly 80% of our schools will be taught through virtual, digital classrooms.
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"Ideas to catch a mood"Financial Times - 2008/07/09
Consumer needs are the primary factor in creating disruptive marketplaces, and are often overlooked in the face of rapid technological advancement.
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"How Stealth Stocks Make It Big"The Motley Fool - 2008/07/09
Learning to spot new market disruptions early on means sharing in the exciting growth period.
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"Clayton Christensen Lecture on The Innovator's Prescription"MIT Engineering Systems Division - 2008/07/03
MIT provides a video lecture by Dr. Christensen, given as part of the Health Care Systems Lecture Series.
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"New Book Takes 'Disruptive Innovation' From Idea to Execution"BusinessWire - 2008/07/01
Empowering business owners with the ideas necessary for implementation, The Innovator's Guide to Growth discusses the practical applications of disruptive innovation.
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"Disruptive, Online Education to go Main Stream"Virtual Canuck - 2008/06/26
Dr. Christensen predicts that by 2019, the more student-centric classroom technologies will have surpassed traditional education delivery methods.
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"The Shape of Things To Come in American Education"Townhall.com - 2008/06/26
Online learning follows the model of other disruptive technologies, reaching a tipping point where virtual classrooms will be more effective than our current education model.
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"The meaning of Bill Gates"The Economist - 2008/06/26
A prominent example of Dr. Christensen's model of disruptive innovation: Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft, watching the personal computing empire he helped build surrender itself to the unexpected titans of the internet era.
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"Harvard professor sees technology as cure for ailing, costly healthcare system"Healthcare Finance News - 2008/06/23
The adoption of three major technologies will allow for better healthcare: molecular diagnostics, imaging technologies, and high-bandwidth telecommunications.
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"When big businesses don't realise the end's nigh"DNA India - 2008/06/23
Big businesses are often the source of innovation due to the advantage extra resources can yield, but in spite of this many of them are undermined by disruptive upstarts who sustained innovation and found new markets.
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"How Do We Transform Our Schools?"Hoover Institution - 2008/06/21
Promoting technologies such as interactive video and online classrooms will transform the way our education system works. Students will learn at their own pace, focusing on their strengths in ways the current system is unable to support.
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"When Is Less Invention More or Less Innovation?"ideanomics - 2008/06/19
Real world examples of disruptive innovation with the idea of "jobs to be done," and how matching a problem with a solution of equivalent complexity is ideal.
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"Education 2.0 - Innovation in education"Business Week - 2008/06/11
Dr. Christensen discusses the ideas of "Disrupting Class" in this podcast. Requires Windows Media Player or iTunes.
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"A First Look at "Disrupting Class" by Clayton Christensen"techLEARNING - 2008/06/11
A review of "Disrupting Class" with excerpts and reactions to the common myths surrounding our current education system and what the primary factor in the solution will be.
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"Official "Disrupting Class" website launched"McGraw-Hill Professional - 2008/06/03
The official site for Dr. Christensen's new book, "Disrupting Class," has recently launched. Read more about this impactful book and its authors, including reviews, an expert Q&A section, and press releases.
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"How 'Disruptive Innovation' Will Change the Way We Learn"Education Week - 2008/06/03
Current education systems lack the modularity required to tailor the learning experience to individual needs. A disruptive approach using computers and virtual classrooms would handle increasingly diverse demands and economic situations.
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"The rise of 'virtual schools' divides education world"MinnPost - 2008/06/02
Advances in technology may render current brick and mortar schools obsolete within 20 years. "Disrupting Class" tackles the issue of how to cope with this imminent virtual revolution.
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"The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits"The New York Times - 2008/05/18
No company in the computer business has be able to maintain market share across two technological eras. Microsoft makes a stand against the disruptive juggernaut Google in its fight for survival through the internet era.
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"New Breed of Business Gurus Rises"The Wall Street Journal - 2008/05/05
Climbing the list of top rated influential thinkers, Dr. Christensen is part of a rising group of gurus that come from less traditional backgrounds.
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"Wanted: A Few Disruptive Leaders"Business Week - 2008/04/04
As more companies fall prey to economic attrition, the need for ingenuous and pioneering leaders to transform technological industries grows.
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"10 Best Books On Innovation To Get You Through The Recession"Business Week - 2008/01/06
Disrupting Class is noted as a must-read book for 2008 as we approach the impending recession.
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"Ranked #25 in Thinkers 50"Thinkers 50 - 2008/01/01
Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer rate the top 50 business thinkers of 2007 based on ideas, presentation, following, research, and other criteria.
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"Books to Get Rich By"Forbes - 2007/10/08
Noted for its ideas on capitalism, The Innovator's Dilemma makes the list of literature to get wealthy by.
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"Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap"The New York Times - 2007/09/23
Vanu Bose brings cellphone technology to the masses, taking Dr. Christensen's advice and expanding into undeveloped markets in Alaska and India.
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"B-School All-Stars"Business Week - 2007/08/22
Dr. Christensen is ranked among ten B-School professors whose ideas on business have had a profound impact outside the classroom as well.
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"Clayton Christensen's Innovation Brain"Business Week - 2007/06/15
A decade since the release of The Innovator's Dilemma, Dr. Christensen's ideas on disruptive innovation have been applied to an increasing diverse range of businesses and industries.
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"Where Dell Went Wrong"Business Week - 2007/02/19
Dell's complacency highlights some of the common misjudgments big businesses make that allow them to be disruptively undermined by fresh ideas.
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"For Better Care, Work Across Lines"The New York Times - 2003/12/31
Dr. Christensen describes the dramatic changes the medical industry could make to create a newer, more affordable health care model.
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"First the Dilemma, Now the Solution"The New York Times - 2003/10/19
Six years after the groundbreaking ideas laid out in The Innovator's Dilemma, Dr. Christensen coaches companies on how to innovate and protect themselves against disruptive upstarts.
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"Three Authors Offer Entrepreneurs a Short List of Required Reading"The New York Times - 2004/05/13
Dr. Christensen's ideas have become mandatory reading for new companies seeking to gain market share over established businesses.
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"Christensen, Inc."Newsweek - 2003/11/17
In response to high demand for training, Dr. Christensen expands the availability of consultation for his ideas with the founding of Innosight.
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"The Industrialized Revolution"Fast Company - 2003/11/01
A paradox exposed: successful companies often fail because of good management. Dr. Christensen unveils this problem, describing "sustaining innovations" and what causes great companies to fail in spite of good business practices.
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"The Great Disruption"Foreign Affairs - 2001/03/01
America has enjoyed strong economic boons as a result of disruptive innovations. In contrast, Japan lost the economic lead by failing to captilalize on disruptive technologies.
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"A conversation with Clayton Christensen about technology's impact on companies"Charlie Rose - 1999/05/26
Charlie Rose interviews Dr. Christensen, discussing how different companies handle changing technologies.
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"Danger: Stealth attack"Forbes - 1999/01/25
Dr. Christensen advised Intel to protect its market share by preemptively expanding into the low end processor market before competitors did, resulting in overwhelming success for the company.
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"Ranking of Top Thinkers and Writers on Management Topics"Accenture's Institute for Strategic Change - 1999/01/25
Accenture chooses the top 50 business thinkers, acknowleding Dr. Christensen's profound ideas and influence in the business world.
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"Gentle Giant"Forbes - 1999/01/25
Kind and considerate, Dr. Christensen approaches his clients understanding that even intelligent businessmen making intelligent decisions can be upended by change.
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