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They didn’t see it coming. Yellow cabs were everywhere, the global symbol of urban life and transit. It was an industry that just worked. And then Uber.

From healthcare, advanced manufacturing, automotive and beyond, there are countless examples today of innovation that is disrupting or has disrupted what otherwise appear to be totally stable, perfectly acceptable products, processes and even sectors.

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Fuelled by easy access to enabling technology, the disruption economy has arrived and it’s here to stay.

Every industry has to identify their disruption risks and ask tough questions, including the most important one of all: are we going to be the disrupted, or the disruptors?

In higher education, there’s this sneaky feeling that maybe we’ve weathered the storm.

Remember when massive-open-online-courses (MOOCs) were going to upend traditional higher education as we knew it? The 90 per cent drop-out rate for MOOC students probably means the disruptive force of MOOCs was gravely overhyped.