Stanford Graduate School of Business

Disrupt Your Business

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Innovation

About Programme

Disrupt Your Business will examine the meaning, evolution, and impact of disruption by exploring disruption theory, innovation strategy, and human-centered design to give participants the tools and techniques to drive innovation and protect themselves and their organizations against industry disruption.

This self-paced, on-demand online course gives you same-day access to proprietary Stanford GSB research-based content.

Programme Content

‘Disruption’ is a widely used and frequently misunderstood term. Understanding it better can help you think about your organization or team’s strategy whether you’re trying to disrupt, avoid being disrupted, or simply scanning the horizon for new trends in your industry.

This course takes a unique view on disruption by combining disruption theory research, innovation strategy, and the ways that business practitioners and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have redefined disruption over the last decade. We’ll bring these perspectives together in a framework for gauging the disruptive potential of an innovation — that is, how likely the innovation is to fundamentally change the structure of an industry. You’ll learn the critical roles that customers, value chains, and technologies play in driving such changes.

The companies and cases we’ll use in this course to learn about disruption include Impossible Foods, Starbucks, Warby Parker, Peloton, HIV treatment pharmaceuticals, Microsoft, Walmart, Uber, Airbnb, Fundbox, Dow Corning, and Fastbrick Robotics, and Pokémon Go.

The Disruption Framework and the Three Pillars of Disruption
Disruption via new entrants
Incumbent self-disruption, and when incumbents miss the disruption
Use a framework to identify where a disruption lies on the continuum from incremental innovation to true disruption
Understand the critical roles of customers, value chains, and technologies in driving disruption
Analyze examples of disruption in different industries, from the perspectives of new entrants and incumbents
Learn the qualities and capabilities a company or organization needs to preempt disruption

This course is offered in four modules and each module extends beyond theory and enables you to put your learnings directly into practice for real-time results. Videos, case studies, simulations, and personal feedback on select assignments will enhance your understanding of course concepts.

Once you pay, you will unlock course material for 60 days and can save select materials for future reference.

Programme Objective

Gain insight into how disruption drives structural industry change through the use of case studies across a broad array of industries.
Understand how innovation can create the potential for future disruption, and discover the difference between durable initiatives and industry fads.
Identify the characteristics that protect industry longevity and help defend against being disrupted.

Programme Audience

Professionals who wish to deepen their understanding of disruption
Leaders who want to advance themselves, their teams, and their organizations by harnessing the power of innovation, trend-forecasting, and disruption
Individuals who seek to protect their organizations against disruption and defend their space

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