Notes
1. A disruptive technology is one that introduces an innovation that displaces an earlier technology and, in so doing, changes the configuration of an industry by creating a new market and a new value network.
2. INSEAD is a highly ranked, MBA-granting business school located in Fontainebleau, near Paris
3. An appendix lists an impressive sample of 24 of the many firms at which interviews took place.
4. “Think Different” is a slogan for Apple Computer.
5. Telecommunications—transportation tradeoffs: Options for tomorrow, J. Nilles, F. Carlson, P. Gray, and G. Hanneman, John Wiley & Sons, 1976.
6. Consilience is defined by the authors as “convergence of mobility and mobility technology.”