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The world of business is changing quickly, and supply chains need to keep up by innovating. Two kinds of innovation are important for supply chains:

 Sustaining innovation: Sustaining innovation is built on continuous process improvement techniques such as Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints (see Chapter 4). Sustaining innovation isn’t sufficient, though, because new technologies can disrupt industries. So you also need to pursue disruptive innovation.

 Disruptive innovation: Disruptive innovation introduces a product, process, or service that creates new markets and destroys established paradigms. When a disruptive solution is accepted, it becomes the new dominant paradigm. If you’re in the business of making buggy whips, you need to figure out how to make buggy whips better, faster, and cheaper than your competitors do, as well as what the new dominant paradigm is going to be so that you’ll know what to do when buggy whips are replaced by a different technology.