{"id":14,"date":"2006-10-09T12:47:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T00:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2007-10-02T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T22:54:39","slug":"a-great-listen-clayton-christensen-capturing-the-upside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/14\/a-great-listen-clayton-christensen-capturing-the-upside\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Listen: Clayton Christensen - Capturing the Upside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itconversations.com\">ITConversations.com<\/a> has an amazing collection of IT related podcasts available, including many comprehensive sets from conferences.<\/p>\n<p>One that really capured me lately was by Clayton Christensen, called &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itconversations.com\/shows\/detail135.html\">Capturing the Upside<\/a>&#8220;. The link will take you to a good synopsis, but I thought I would also post a short summary of the points that were of value to me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A very good description of what &#8216;disruptive technology&#8217; is &#8211; probably the best I&#8217;ve heard.<\/li>\n<li>Different types of disruption (e.g. new market v.s. cut-price disruption)<\/li>\n<li>Why it is so hard for new companies to compete in existing markets<\/li>\n<li>Why it can be so easy for new companies to work in new markets, and why encumbent companies will often run the other way<\/li>\n<li>What happens when features or performance exceed customer needs<\/li>\n<li>The transition from proprietary to modular and comodotised<\/li>\n<li>The resulting shift in who makes more profits when the above transition happens<\/li>\n<li>Many great examples of companies dealing with these things &#8211; some of whom fail, some of whom turn it to their advantage<\/li>\n<li>Some application of this to Open Source software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While it is predominantly tech-oriented, I would still encourage a wider audience to take a listen &#8211; the processes and market dynamics he covers apply to almost every product we encounter in everyday life and therefore is very applicable to the educational products we love and hate.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mindspacesolutions.com%2Fblog%2F14%2Fa-great-listen-clayton-christensen-capturing-the-upside%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITConversations.com has an amazing collection of IT related podcasts available, including many comprehensive sets from conferences. One that really capured me lately was by Clayton Christensen, called &#8220;Capturing the Upside&#8220;. The link will take you to a good synopsis, but I thought I would also post a short summary of the points that were of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6,10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}