Slide 1: Disruptive Technologies
Rajkumar C Madhuram, CTO
Slide 2: Innovations
• Sustaining Technology
– Improvements to existing products. – e.g. Colgate “citrus blast”
• Revolutionary Technology
– Replaces the market leader – e.g. Tata Nano??
• Disruptive Technology
Slide 3: What is…
Disruptive Technology • Out-of-the-box, ground breaking • Killer App • Paradigm Shift “… a technological innovation, product, or service that uses a disruptive strategy, rather than a revolutionary or sustaining strategy, to overturn the existing dominant technologies or status quo products in a market.” - Wikipedia
Slide 4: Hallmarks
Disruptive Technology • Appears out of the blue…
– No one expected the streaker coming. – The light bulb was not invented by the candle industry looking to improve output
• Grabs attention • Disrupts the normal flow
Slide 5: Pre-historic
Fire
• Cooking • Raw meat -> Cooked meat
Wheel
• Increased mobility
Slide 6: Pre-computer
Motor Vehicles
• over rail transport
Television
• over movie theatres
Telephones
• over telegraphy
Slide 7: Recent Times
Linux O/S
• • • • over Unix/Windows Free software Gaining wide adoption, various devices OLPC project (laptop.org)
Why disruptive? • Manufacturers build cheap, thinner machines • Developers can customize & extend the OS
Slide 8: Recent Times
Open Source Software (OSS)
• Availability of source code • Variety of components
– Sourceforge et. al
• Better quality
– Cathedral vs Bazaar (Eric S Raymond)
• Agile methodologies
Why disruptive? • Low barrier to entry • One of the flatteners (The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman)
Slide 9: Current Trends
VoIP
• • • Voice over Internet Protocol Regular phone lines are circuit switched. Transmission of voice through packet switching
Why disruptive?
• • Low barrier to entry for providers. Enables many applications to be built.
Slide 10: Current Trends
Web 2.0
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform” – Tim O’Reilly, 2005
• Long Tail
– Amazon.com, eBay – Small volumes of hard to find items
• Participatory
– Blogs, discussion forums – Tagging, social classification (Digg, del.icio.us)
Slide 11: Current Trends
• Web Services
– REST, SOAP – Mashups
• Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
– AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) – Flash based
– AIR
• Desktop apps using web techniques
Slide 12: Current Trends
Google • Redefined Search • Page Rank Algorithm
– a "ballot" among all the other pages on the World Wide Web about how important a page is.
Why disruptive? • Displaced prevailing search technologies. • Online advertisements.
Slide 13: Current Trends
YouTube • Streaming Video • Dependencies
– Cheap digital camcorders, cell phones
Why disruptive? • Broadcast yourself. • Social power
– Senator George Allen calling someone a macaca (a monkey) cost him a seat.
Slide 14: Current Trends
Cloud Computing • Virtualization
– AWS
• Server Farms • Access to data anywhere, anytime
– Yahoo mail, Salesforce, BoxCloud, Zoho etc.
Why disruptive? • Low cost, scalable data center
Slide 15: Current Trends
Top 10 Most Disruptive Technology Combinations
Dan Tynan, PC World, 19 Mar 2008
10. DVRs + Entertainment on Demand 9. YouTube + Cheap Digital Cameras and Camcorders 8. Open Source + Web Tools 7. MP3 + Napster 6. Blogs + Google Ads 5. Cheap Storage + Portable Memory 4. Cloud Computing + Always-On Devices 3. Broadband + Wireless Networks 2. The Web + The Graphical Browser 1. Cell Phones + Wireless Internet Access
Slide 16: Innovations @ Impiger
VoIP • AutoDialer – For Service Providers • eazyNGO – Next Gen OSS • IP-PBX Cloud Computing • BoxCloud – Peer to Peer File Sharing • Mobster – Music sharing RIA • BoxCloud • xNet – Task & Asset Tracking System
Slide 17: Innovations @ Impiger
GPS/GPRS/RFID • Vehicle Tracking System Tools • FireAntz • BSC Monitoring Mobile Games • Crime Control • T20 World Cup
Slide 18: Thank You!
