article thumbnail

Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Christensen’s influence on the business world has been profound.

article thumbnail

Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. But as her business grew, what she envisioned became blurry, as she focused on fine paper and cards, the accoutrements of correspondence, rather than on relationships.

article thumbnail

Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

Blog 384
article thumbnail

How Boredom Can Drive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. These observations weren't closely connected with my client work, but they did help to provide local context and might ultimately spur thoughts about opportunities for innovation. Make a regular habit of just standing and watching. You may be surprised by what you see.

article thumbnail

In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

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.”. Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

Levitt 11
article thumbnail

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. Assessment area: Innovation focus. Apple with iTunes, $0.99

Trends 14