Clayton Christensen dies at 67 after lifetime of business, spiritual influence

SALT LAKE CITY — Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation made him a key influence on Silicon Valley powerhouses like Netflix and Intel and twice earned him the title of the world’s most influential living management thinker, died Jan. 23 at age 67. His brother, Carlton, told the Deseret News that Christensen died Thursday evening of complications from cancer in Boston, Massachus

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"Grove told Christensen he mislabeled his theory. Instead of innovative technologies, Grove suggested, Christensen should have used “crummy technologies.”