Business Innovations

2 Credits · Level: Graduate

This advanced seminar explores current ideas and potential innovations for dramatically improving the U.S. health care system. A disruptive innovation, a term coined by Clayton Christensen, is an innovation that improves a product or service in ways that the market does not expect. Sustaining innovations improve performance in ways that mainstream customers value, while disruptive innovations often have characteristics that traditional customer segments may not want but that have the potential to dramatically change market demand and to overtake market leaders. This course looks at potential disruptive innovations in the health care industry, ranging from new organizational models to technological and scientific advances to the convergence of data systems and measurement research. Utilizing the Oxford tutorial method, the course will feature experienced faculty/practitioners that challenge students to develop sound and critical analyses of new concepts and ideas.