Clayton Christensen: Is Facebook an Innovative Company?

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Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, argues that despite developing a groundbreaking idea, Facebook hasn't proven itself to be an innovative company.

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Traditionally, big companies have been vulnerable to disruptive start-ups who can move more nimbly into new markets. But companies today are learning how to build disruption into their DNA. This session will explore the intersection between leadership, corporate culture, and disruptive innovation.

Ideas Economy: Innovation will explore the role of governments, corporations and individuals as drivers of innovation and will develop prescriptions that lead to lasting progress and prosperity. Conference attendees will engage in a lively examination of current political and economic policies around the world, develop a keen understanding of how the forces of globalization affect the ways companies innovate and manage innovation, and discuss what individuals can do, not only to energize their own creative and intellectual potential, but to develop jobs, improve company earnings, and contribute to economic growth around the world.

Clayton M. Christensen is the architect of and the world's foremost authority on disruptive innovation, a framework which describes the process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves "up market," eventually displacing established competitors. Consistently acknowledged in rankings and surveys as one of the world's leading thinkers on innovation, Christensen is widely sought after as a speaker, advisor and board member. His research has been applied to national economies, start-up and Fortune 50 companies, as well as to early and late stage investing.

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[Kakarakaya Vankaya]

Facebook has streamlined people's inherent urgency to eavesdrop on the most boring conversations on the earth.

[Aberran Fox]

What was facebook's innovation. Selling out has been done.

[BillNyeTheScienceGuy]

Facebook is by far the most effective social media platform for multiple reasons, but to put Google on their same level is ridiculous. Google has an overwhelming domination on search, has been successful in numerous other online services such as maps, has a successful computer OS platform, has an extremely successful smartphone OS, and is well on their way to developing world-changing technologies, most notably self-driving cars. To say that Google needs to prove their innovation still is dumb.

[The3nlightened0ne]

Myspace stole the idea from Friendster

[WideWorldOfWisdom]

Leave it to a Harvard professor to take nearly 2 minutes to say what could have been said in 12 seconds.

[Intuition Ryerson]

how many other private companies does Clayton Christensen pray for? lol...

[PublicAccessZone]

Only the naive tho that's far too many :)

[tabber87]

Facebook is the Apple of social networking.

And I mean that in the worst possible terms.

[djsnakeyes]

FB = CIA/NSA

[1marcelo]

What is unique about Facebook is that people feel compelled to use their real names and real pictures. It was not like that in any other social networks. That's why Facebook has complicated privacy settings.

[bradyn walsh]

Facebook doesn't innovate it steals ideas.

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