Glossary#

Desirability#

About creating a user-centered experience, and identifying what your customers really want.

Disruptive Innovation#

Describes a process where a new, simpler, or more affordable technology and business model takes root at the bottom of a market and eventually displaces established industry leaders.

Technology or new business model that disrupts the existing market.

Feasibility#

Focuses entirely on the technical capability to build, scale, and maintain disruptive technology.

Incremental Innovation#

Gradual, continuous improvements on existing products and services.

Information Systems (IS) Innovations#

Focuses on leveraging modern digital tools and computational theories to solve complex business problems, create operational efficiencies, and drive strategic growth.

PESTEL Framework#

A framework or tool used by marketers to analyze and monitor the macro-environmental (external marketing environment) factors that have an impact on an organization, company, or industry. It examines the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal factors in the external environment.

Radical Innovation#

Technological breakthrough that transforms industries, often creates a new market.

Sustaining Innovation#

A significant improvement on a product that aims to sustain the position in an existing market.

Viability#

Requires you to focus on the value chain in terms of what customers expect from services of your business, looking at both profitability and sustainability to achieve optimal results.