Information systems innovation

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Eletric Tinting

My article is about Smart Glass. Its a fairly new technology being used in homes, cars, airplanes, and by the military.  Scientist have developed a way to combine normal glass with liquid crystals. When the crystals are touched by low levels of electricity they realign causing a difference in the amount of light being let in or out of an area. This technology have a lot of real world applications in regards to security and energy conservation.

This is a Sustaining Innovation aimed at Undershot customers because of the price. You can have the technology applied at your home or car for a significant sum of money. Currently the technology is standard  in the Maybach which cost $345,000.

The final chapter from Christensen is understanding the role of nonmarket forces: ChristensenNonMarketForces

In chapters 1 and 2, Christensen focused on understanding customers and the industry, in chapter 3, the focus shifts to inside the firm: ChristensenStrategicChoices

To refresh and reinforce the difference among all the key concepts, we will spend some time reviewing the competitive battles material. I further refined the slides from several weeks ago: ChristensenCompetitiveBattles

This week we will shift focus away from consumers to companies and their battles to make a profit! ChristensenCompetitiveBattles

Where does innovation come from? What are the signals that can lead us to innovative products or services? This week we will focus on Chapter 1: ChristensenSignalsofChange.

Clay Christensen’s “theory of innovation” sounds very simple but it is hard to apply in practice. We will start today with getting a feel for the basic elements of the theory of innovation. Check out the attached slides: ChristensenIntro. What do you think? Is this stuff super obvious and perhaps useless?

To set the stage for the course, we will first discuss Innovation in the context of one of the other great opportunities in information technology – integration.