InAVate: Disruptive innovation: an innovation that creates a new (and unexpected) market by applying a different set of values. Chris Fitzsimmons looks at some of the technologies and applications with the potential to radically change the way we use AV technologies in the next five years. The humble LED started out as a low brightness device, only suitable for indicator lights. Current models are widely used in indoor lighting applications and video displays. Eventually they are likely to fully replace other lamps in outdoor and high brightness applications. When Clayton M. Christensen first coined the phrase ‘disruptive technologies’ in his 1995 paper ’Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave’, he was writing for managing executives making funding and purchasing decisions in major corporations. In further work on the subject he refined the term to ‘disruptive innovations’, recognising that it was rarely technology itself that caused an impact on markets, but the way in which it was applied. A disruptive technology is generally typified by one that starts out life as a niche play in a particular application, before going on to dominate an entire sector. Read Full : InAVate - The impossible becomes likely
