Design thinking for pre-empting digital disruption

dc.contributor.authorGerber, Aurona Jacoba
dc.contributor.authorMatthee, Machdel C.
dc.contributor.emailaurona.gerber@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-24T08:03:08Z
dc.date.available2020-07-24T08:03:08Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractDigital disruption is the phenomenon when established businesses succumb to new business models that exploit emerging technologies. Futurists often make dire predictions when discussing the impact of digital disruption, for instance that 40% of the Fortune 500 companies will disappear within the next decade. The digital disruption phenomenon was already studied two decades ago when Clayton Christensen developed a Theory of Disruptive Innovation, which is a popular theory for describing and explaining disruption due to technology developments that had occurred in the past. However it is still problematic to understand what is necessary to avoid disruption, especially within the context of a sustainable society in the 21st century. A key aspect we identified is the behavior of non-mainstream customers of an emerging technology, which is difficult to predict, especially when an organization is operating in an existing solution space. In this position paper we propose complementing the Theory of Disruptive Innovation with design thinking in order to identify the performance attributes that encourage the unpredictable and unforeseen customer behavior that is a cause for disruption. We employ case-based scenario analysis of higher education as evaluation mechanism for our extended disruptive innovation theory. Our position is that a better understanding of the implicit and unpredictable customer behavior that cause disruption due to additional performance attributes (using design thinking) could assist organizations to pre-empt digital disruption and adapt to support the additional functionality.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentInformaticsen_ZA
dc.description.librarianhj2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://link.springer.combookseries/558en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGerber A., Matthee M. (2019) Design Thinking for Pre-empting Digital Disruption. In: Pappas I., Mikalef P., Dwivedi Y., Jaccheri L., Krogstie J., Mäntymäki M. (eds) Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century. I3E 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11701. Springer, Cham.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0302-9743 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1611-3349 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1007/978-3-030-29374-1_62
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/75420
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSpringeren_ZA
dc.rights© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2019. The original publication is available at : http://link.springer.combookseries/558.en_ZA
dc.subjectDigital disruptionen_ZA
dc.subjectDesign thinkingen_ZA
dc.subjectTheory of disruptive innovationen_ZA
dc.titleDesign thinking for pre-empting digital disruptionen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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