Disruptive innovation: Where do we go from here?

I enjoyed my 'trialogue' with Andrew Jacobs and the audience at this year's Learning Technologies conference. We were asked to cover the topic of disruptive innovation and learning, and gladly accepted the challenge, with the proviso that we could try something a little different. We didn't want to stick to the run-of-the-mill conference presentation format, so we opted for a kind of 'staged disagreement' instead. Between us and the audience of Learning and Development professionals, we managed to cover several key areas of disruptive innovation, discussing and debating issues of corporate identity, organisational change, learning support, the role of the Learning and Development professional and new technologies, and we also debated the work of Clay Christensen, Everett Rogers and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and other useful models and theories.

Some cautionary tales and light-hearted stories were also thrown into the mix. Andrew and I had some fun as we highlighted some areas for concern and celebration, and discussed positive deviance, change management and change agency. Here is the link to the full video, with synchronised slides and contributions from the audience. Any comments are very welcome.



 Photo by Merrick Brown

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