Is Your Business Model Part of Your Innovation Strategy?

06/14/23 • 14 min

The theory of disruptive innovation endures as a way to make a complicated and expensive product simpler and more affordable. But the originator of disruptive innovation argued that disruptive innovation isn’t just about simplifying technology — it also requires a new business model.

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