
<p>Last week's BoxWorks conference had as much discussion about disruption and innovation as it did about the Box products--and one theme that emerged is that these elements are intimately linked and are having a huge impact on content management.</p><p>Of course, these forces are having an impact on every enterprise software company out there, but since our focus here is content management, let's look at how they are affecting that particular area.</p><p>Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, who wrote the seminal book on disruption called "The Innovator's Dilemma," seems to understand this better than perhaps anyone else out there. He has studied why even good companies get disrupted and his theories apply to content management or any other business.</p><p>In fact, technology is a place where disruption is particularly pronounced, and we have seen that as we have moved through the technological evolution from mainframes to mini computers to PCs and laptops, to mobile devices. There has been a corresponding shift in the way IT supports these devices.</p><p><a href="http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/mobile-disruption-blows-content-management/2012-10-15">Keep reading...</a></p>