N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Disruptive Innovation (per the Christensen model) generally takes place in an industry dominated by an oligopoly and having an unserved segment ( towards the lower end in terms of profit margins and product capability) which attains visibility as a result of technological expansion in what is most of the time, a non-related field.

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

March 2009 was the worst, at 830,000 jobs lost. The number of government jobs peaked in April 2009 at almost 22.7 Yes, manufacturing employment has been rebounding since bottoming out in 2009, but it’s from an awfully low base. And it went on like that for five more months. And secular shifts make for cool charts!

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Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation. Unfortunately the approach you are taking is standard management, which in the case of discontinuous/radical/disruptive innovations fails. I look forward to hearing more from you.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. More recently, Christensen has acknowledged that perhaps Apple, the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, achieved the task. per share by nearly a dime.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

And while it has certainly burned many buyers of Amazon shares through the years — Amazon's stock price took a decade to get back to its 2009 peak — the long-run returns have been spectacular. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. In Morten T.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill. By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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