A disruption occurs when human motivation embraces new technology and allows it to enhance and expand the experience of everyday life - the disruptor is the technology, while disruption is the human being engaged in a new behaviour. The acceptance and appropriation of new technologies creates a business disruption, which changes, interrupts, transitions, and eventually transforms people's habitual way of doing things. The Philosophy of Disruption provides a structural understanding of how disruption differs from regular change, presenting methods for conceptualizing beneficial responses into products, services, or experiences.

Knowledge about disruption is not about knowing what happens, but how it happens. The core challenge of disruption is the essential questions we need to ask in every situation and why we need to ask them. Formulating testable principles of disruption, two critical phases are described in The Philosophy of Disruption, preparing rapid responses to disruptors: firstly, the transition phase - the immediate changes brought about by a radical new idea fundamentally altering our relationships. Secondly, the transformative change phase - using that radical new idea to establish and sustain an entirely new organization or system.

Investigating and clarifying these transitions and transformations, The Philosophy of Disruption provides a framework for measuring, planning, and changing how organizations are run, offering processes for understanding and translating conceptualization into action.

About the Author

Alexander Manu is a Strategic Innovation Practitioner, International Lecturer, and the author of numerous books. A Professor at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, and visiting Lecturer at the Wallace McCain Institute, Canada. Manu is also a Senior Partner at Equilibrant, a boutique consultancy that provides strategic counsel and future-based advisory to executive teams in Fortune 500 companies.

Reviews

The Philosophy of Disruption: From Transition to Transformational Change is a thought-provoking book. I highlighted many paragraphs particularly those related to leadership through this uncertain process. In summary, the book is a valuable resource for all leaders contemplating how to create a framework for measuring, planning and indeed changing the way that their organisations are run. The author provides useful examples within a four-stage process framework for change including the cognitive, transition, agile and transformational stages. In my opinion, a book to be read slowly and discussed widely with others.

-- Tracy Stanley, Organizational Consultant



Book Information
ISBN 9781802628500
Author Alexander Manu
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 442g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm