For my class on entrepreneurial journalism at the UBC j-school, I draw on the ideas of disruptive innovation of Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School. Christensen argues that incumbents tend to focus on sustaining innovations, making small improvements to existing products. What large incumbents struggle with is disruptive innovations – newer and less expensive products that may initially not be as good as the existing one. Christensen outlined the lessons

This promotional video for the journalism school at Conestogac College in Ontario is a revelation. Lots of talk about print and producing a newspaper but no mention of this new-fangled thing called the interweb. Oh well, journalists don’t need to know about the Internet and how it is changing the profession. As Howard Owens commented, “It must still be 1988 in Canada.&#