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Disruptive Innovation in the African Tech Context

Disruptive Innovation in the African Tech Context

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What is it really to disrupt, or what is a disruptive innovation? And to put it in the African context, what does ‘disruption’ mean for the continent and what are the opportunities to disrupt? A dictionary definition of the term ‘disrupt‘ is: to throw into turmoil or disorder to interrupt the progress of (a movement, meeting, etc.) to break or split (something) apart Disruptive Innovation is NOT making a good product better Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor who coined the term and came up with the theory of disruptive innovation describes this...Read More

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