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

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. Most companies have taken steps toward “digitization.” Google bought U.K.

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. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. This shift is long overdue.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

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. For the last century, America has operated on the world's technological frontier. That was down from 9.7%

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) Consider it a summary of what's on my mind as 2010 comes to a close. How do you define innovation?

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

More companies want far greater flexibility with far fewer people. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.". Have people been commoditized?

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

As Boyle wrote, "We are not utilizing the capabilities of the women in our companies. This new process, the brave seedling of personal technology, would transform "the former secretary" to "an administrative assistant, performing the nontranscription portion of the traditional job plus taking on additional responsibilities.".

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 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. Our hypothesis is that those who can successfully navigate, even harness, the successive cycles of learning and maxing out that resemble the S-curve will thrive in this era of personal disruption.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. 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.

Early Adopters 15

Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 15

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 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

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

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 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. postal service.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

It works like this: a company quickly enters a new market and attracts customers, and those customers attract more customers, and so on. What markets have these companies actually won? But all of these companies pay investors, at least in part, by selling advertising to marketers who want to reach more eyeballs.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In 2009, Michael Mandel, former Chief Economist for Businessweek and founder of a key economics blog , presented new research in a cover story called " The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S. " There was much less in true economic value generated by innovation than was expected. The third problem with innovation is economic value.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

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

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

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

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 Half the top 20 companies grew via category creation.

B2C 13

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 13

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. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8