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January 3, 2005
The Limits of Data Analysis in Predicting Disruption
Posted by Renee Hopkins Callahan
Britton Manasco, who writes Corante's "Customer Intelligence" blog, quotes Clayton Christensen as saying that his "students have become so 'data-driven' that they are unable to imagine the disruptions that lie on the horizon."
Britton's post recounts how, at a recent Open Source Business conference, Christensen described a discussion he had had with some of his Harvard Business School students about his concern that "a 'disruptive innovation' is about to overturn the success of the Harvard Business School...[which] is in danger of being over-run by corporate universities (like GE Crotonville), on-the-job training and web-based technical schools like the University of Phoenix."
There's more, all well worth reading, but the key insight Britton reports is that "data and analysis revolve around the past, leaving us blind to the threats and opportunities of the future."
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1. steve on January 5, 2005 9:59 AM writes...
i thought about this. then i wondered if law schools and medical schools would have the same problem. the answer to that seems to be no since you have to be professionally licensed and corporate training can't seem to offer that kind of certification without a legal change. along those lines, perhaps if mba programs wanted to stave off disruption, perhaps they must look to creating some sort of certification that is meaningful and can only be gotten through a college program. dunno.
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