- Disruptive Innovation-Key Concepts
- What Is Disruptive Innovation?
- Harnessing Disruptive Innovation in Health Care
- How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
- Disruptive Innovation in Medicaid NEMT
Disruptive Innovation is a framework for replacing an existing part of a complex adaptive system with one that is:
- Much less expensive or resource demanding
- Easier to access and use
- Easier to support, repair, and replace
- Flexible in opening up adjacent possibilities for change
Imagine an MRI machine that only cost $50,000, instead of millions, and that could do a scan for $10.
Such disruption is not limited to products or technologies. It is a very useful concept for reimagining community living, social support, collaboration, mutual support, and other social “technologies” that are important to our disability community.
But disruptive innovation is not easy to do. You will need an understanding of where disruptive innovation starts and how it evolves. Evolution is the right framework for thinking about successful disruption.
As an example of both the possibilities and difficulties of disruption, imagine the ways that real trust between people makes everything they do more effective and less expensive in both time and resources. Then imagine how easy it is to lose trust in our current context. What kind of context would support trust and make its continuation and expansion more resilient?
