Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

These assets, however, will lose value if insurers don’t develop digital capabilities to meet the changing demands of their customers. online carrier that uses telematics to collect its customers’ driving information and reward them for driving safely, acquired 200,000 clients within three years after its launch in 2010.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Virtually everyone who''s made money from the App Store or competed against a Salesforce.com or SurveyMonkey viscerally understands the huge differences between "pretty good" developers and those best described as "terrific." " Acqu-hiring " has become both a buzzword and a best practice for a reason.

Innovation 14

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. That, essentially, was the message behind M. What Your Stock Price Really Means.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.".

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

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

JULY 1, 2014

A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla. Auto industry Disruptive innovation Strategy'

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation. What do you do?

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

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). Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP.

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

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. He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Promoting innovation is also one of the eight key reform priorities in the “383” plan being circulated by the State Council’s Development Research Center. Trouble is, realizing the objectives around innovation will be not be easy in China, and will require the Chinese government to surmount a number of formidable hurdles.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In 1986, Lotus Development Corporation announced the latest version of its (at the time) wildly popular 1-2-3 spreadsheet, one that now sported a spiffy new "undo" feature. It's telling us that software as a service just blinked into being mainstream in 2010. It was a big deal. Undo was new again a few years later.

Early Adopters 14

Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

IT must lead by showing how technology is applied in IT itself, then influencing and guiding the organization in making the right decisions and coming up with an innovative product plan. Small, agile cycles of development and risk assessment help to measure goals, evaluate success and easily change execution strategy.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 coffee sector revenue grew from $28 billion in the late 1990s to $47 billion in 2010. Category creation requires innovation teams to re-think their role beyond just creating new products and services. of revenue growth.

B2C 12

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 12

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. In fact, Kodak invested billions to develop a range of digital cameras. ” A good line, but not completely accurate.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. They're failing to take control and develop a plan. Four main factors go into developing and positioning an app strategy: Brand. It's the same inertia we saw in the early days of the internet. Once again, too many CEOs are hesitating.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. We need to figure out how to create more systematic ways to track, measure, and reward people following behaviors consistent with successful innovation. We need to make sure we have systems that balance short and long term performance.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

As a 2010 study by the Center for College Affordability , a non-profit research center, expressed it: "With a tenure system, colleges are not able to reduce the number of medieval history professors in order to increase the number of information technology and business professors.".

Engineering 10

Engineering Education Class Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Economists developed the theory of network effects in the 1970s and burnished it in the 1990s, and business gurus, entrepreneurs, and the tech media enshrined it as one of the guiding lights of the new economy. From around 1990 to 2010 Microsoft arguably ruled the information-technology industry.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation 8