Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. 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. Can he do it?

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

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

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Less than 1% of those investments have focused on helping consumers to play a more active role in managing their own health, an area ripe for disruptive approaches. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Nothing on the scale of "Think different" was created by Jobs more than a decade after that iconic campaign. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping. No iPad mini at all. Apple's is 13.

Marketing 10

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 10

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

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

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.,

Innovation 15

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers. By contrast, here we are referring to the market-wide activities the company performs in its broader ecosystem.). Assemblers construct and distribute a final market-ready product. Orienting around a market activity isn’t just for disruptive new entrants.

Automotive 8

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.".

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

pace in the first quarter of 2010. However, when it comes to developing the breakthrough technologies and disruptive innovations that will change people's lives, free markets are much better coordinators of economic activity. In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%.

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

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.

Innovation 14

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 14

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

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

JANUARY 31, 2011

This experience came back to me in late 2010, listening to Steve Kaufman , a senior lecturer at HBS and the former CEO of Arrow Electronics, presenting at the Forum for Growth and Innovation. On the topic of acquisitions, Kaufman recounted the standing advice of the former head of Arrow's acquisition integration team.

Uncertainty 15

Uncertainty Maslow Disruptive Innovation Report 15

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. The delivery of primary health care in the United States is ripe for disruption.

Industry 8

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

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. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Undo matters, in other words, because its appearance almost always signals that a market has gone from fringe to mainstream, with profits set to follow. It's telling us that software as a service just blinked into being mainstream in 2010.

Early Adopters 14

Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 14

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. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out. Patient capital.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. A brand also has to be aligned with the market profile of the consumer segment. Many companies forget to align customer service with the brand proposition for the targeted market segment.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post about the forces of competition and market change that are affecting the legal profession, causing many firms to now take the once unthinkable step of letting even senior partners go if they can't produce sufficient revenues to contribute to the firm's bottom lines (as reported in the Wall Street Journal ).

Creativity 8

Creativity Short-term Trends Education 8

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. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." Consider how HP and Apple faced the changes in the PC market almost exactly a decade ago. •On Why is that?

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

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. Disruptive innovation Innovation Strategy'

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

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 8

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 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 10

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 10

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 in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00 in incremental market capitalization for $1.00 coffee sector revenue grew from $28 billion in the late 1990s to $47 billion in 2010. of revenue growth.

B2C 12

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 12

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. Their primary goal is employment and job creation, not disruptive innovation that may be risky but could create shareholder value.

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. 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 4, 2011

According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning , approximately 5.6 Many school districts in small, rural, and urban markets that do not have access to the breath of education available in more resource plenty areas will pull humanities, arts, economics, Chinese, and quality A.P.

Education 15

Education Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 15