Reflection On Disruptive Innovation

REFLECTION: DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS SPUR GROWTH

Disruptive innovation is an attempt to enter a market with the intention of either creating a new market with a product of finding a place among unsatisfied customers in an existing market. Though I have been involved in a disruptive innovation process, but the name was initially alien to me. However, as I reflect, I realized that to be effective and successful as a disruptive innovator, patience is absolutely necessary because others are also innovating as well. I also realized that a successful innovator has to consider a reduction of the price of its products in order to attract customers. After reading the article for this week, I reflected on a product I could successful disrupts and makes

Being a disruptive innovator is not always an acceptable phenomenon from a cultural perspective; however, I have been a disruptive innovator in various ways. First and foremost, I had a job and business going for me, but in order to improve the capacity of my future, I considered that disrupting the convenience of luxury moments by going back to school to obtain a college degree would be more profitable in the long run. As a disruptive innovator, the action of returning to an online classroom essentially disrupted my job and affected the business in the short-term. Meanwhile, I’m patiently improving my academic pursuit and will hopefully consolidate in the long-term. According to the reading article by Christensen, Raynor, and Anthony (2003), they emphasize that patience is an attribute of a disruptive innovator, even though the pressure to have a quick growth is enormous. That is what I have done by disrupting what was incumbent in my life to pursue what I regard as an

These are specific periods when I could not concentrate on my studies and my family was really struggling to comprehend why I had to return to school at the detriment of my job and business. It appears that I was climbing an insurmountable mountain and friends did not see what I saw in attempting to improve my mental capacity, which would also transform me into an effective person in the future. It was almost like I should return to the status quo, but I relied on my instinct and decided to press forward no matter what. Disruptive innovation takes sufficient time to prove its worth and attract skeptics but at the end, disruptive innovation can either create a new market or confront an existing market. So, while hoping to continue being a disruptive innovator to my life, I can patiently wait for the growth and pursue profitability in the long