Scott Anthony - Partner at Innosight

Scott is a partner at Clayton Christensen’s consulting firm, Innosight, which is focused on topics of innovation. I saw Clay give a talk on disruptive technologies back in October and Scott covered much of the same material. If you haven't read Innovator's Dilemma, I highly recommend it. Scott is a former student of Clay's and looks pretty young (mid to late 20's), but spoke very well and obviously had the material down.

Here are a few items I found noteworthy:

Sometimes the leaders of an industry are the worst to predict what the future holds. Two good examples include Western Union (and the telephone) and DEC (and the PC).

Existing firms almost always win out with sustaining innovation (but often lose out with disruptive innovation)

The competitors most companies worry about are the biggest and best funded, when they really should worry about the one's you don't know about yet.