Session 4: Disruptive innovation and business models

Question 1

Sustaining technologies:

Answer 1

improved performance of established products

Question 2

Disruptive technologies:

Answer 2

bring to a market a very different value proposition than had been available previously

Question 3

4 sources of value creation in e-businesses

Answer 3

• Novelty
• Lock-In
• Complementaries
• Efficiency

Question 4

Characteristics of business models

Answer 4

• Transaction content:
• Transaction structure
• Transaction governance

Question 5

the four main areas of a business:

Answer 5

Customers, offer, infrastructure, financial viability

Question 6

Business model, Osterwalder and Pigneur,

Answer 6

Key partnerships
Key activities
Key resources
Value propositions
Customer relationships
Channels
Customer segments
Cost structure
Revenue streams