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The Value of Vision Series – Whitney Johnson

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption and a co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors. That was 2004. In trying to live in a world that she envisioned, Erin started an online reminder service mixed with high-end occasion cards.

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business Review

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change.

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On Tracking Transformational Trends

Harvard Business Review

I synthesized Innosight's writing, notably Seeing What's Next (my 2004 book with Clayton Christensen) and a 2009 Harvard Business Review article about transformation in clean-tech , with my own field experience to highlight three areas to asses.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain. .” It’s tempting to think the third camp — reacting opportunistically to emerging possibilities — represents the field’s most recent thinking. .”