The Shock of Disruptive Innovation: The Un-LinkedIn Way to Think About Injecting Innovation

Injecting a disruptive breakthrough, an “idea shock,” into any innovation is proportional to the internal or external boundaries of the system defined. When you completely rely on domain experts, who have developed extensive knowledge of the components residing inside the box, the tendency to inject a shocking new idea that could become a game changer decreases substantially.

Any new way of looking at the solution to any problem usually comes from the external environment or “outside of the bo...