Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence.

Innovation 14

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The book introduced the idea of disruptive innovation to a generation of managers. First, ideas are important.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. Even if it has nothing more up its sleeve than beautiful new iterations of its existing products, the fact remains that this is a company that last quarter had profits of more than $8 billion.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. Previously, he launched Hulu.com from inside of NBC, and was on the founding team of MLB Advanced Media, the five billion dollar digital media company collectively owned by the Major League Baseball team owners.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. The latest set of contracts, penned in 2010 , have run aground due to haggling over Chinese access to oil blocks and the threat of unfavorable regulation.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. The latest set of contracts, penned in 2010 , have run aground due to haggling over Chinese access to oil blocks and the threat of unfavorable regulation.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Employers and insurance companies — not end consumers — call the shots on what kind of care they will pay for. jennifer maravillas for hbr. The Whole-Person Approach.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors? Is Tesla even an automotive company? Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers. Successful companies don’t play a role ; they excel at an activity. The Internet’s response was to ask a collective “Why?”

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Consider it a summary of what's on my mind as 2010 comes to a close. How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g.,

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change? At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity. Their innovation discretion shrinks while Google X''s horizons expand.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

pace in the first quarter of 2010. However, once a venture identifies a successful business model and profit formula, the company should transition to executing a deliberate strategy. This is because firms operating in free markets are much more capable of employing emergent strategies than are governments.

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. More companies want far greater flexibility with far fewer people. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. Entrepreneurial success is intrinsically lopsided, a natural outcome of creating extraordinary value for customers.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Then you enter hypergrowth, which typically happens somewhere between 10-15% of market penetration. Saturation is reached at 90%+.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. And Nielsen has no reason to cede control of it.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. In those days, incumbent companies were stuck in preweb ways of thinking.

Brand 12

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. If you made a mistake in your spreadsheet you could roll it back, a must-have feature for companies wanting to use PC spreadsheets (which still had "toy" reputations) for real business. The feature? And now, undo is new yet again.

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Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction. Innovation has never been more accessible.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

HP's sudden departure from a business model that has sustained the company since inception is symptomatic of the passing of an era. HP management conceded that the disruptive impact of the iPad forced their hand but that hand was already quite weak from a decade of over-serving the market. In 2010 the game was over.

Software 9

Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

My return flight from Newark to Singapore on last week pushed me over 300,000 miles in the air in 2010. Anyway, during my travels, I've kept a running list of observations, travel tips for those of you coming to Asia for either a short trip or an extended stay, and thoughts on innovation, all gleaned from my first year based here.

Airlines 15

Airlines Hotels Travel Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness. What markets have these companies actually won?

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While I've helped many clients grow their products, brands, and overall businesses, there is nothing as exhilarating as helping a company create an entirely new category. Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00

B2C 13

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

In April 2010, V.R. He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences). AppHaus truly embodies SAP's frugal innovation philosophy.

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

China is well on its way to doubling the number of patent applications filed with the State Intellectual Property Office, from 1 million in 2010 to 2 million by 2015. Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China. At first blush, even the output looks impressive.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. New companies can be set up in hours, if not minutes.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8