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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

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. Disruptive innovation' Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

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. Disruptive innovation' Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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Blockbuster Becomes a Casualty of Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review

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.” In 2010, the once-unbeatable company declared bankruptcy. Disruptive innovation Innovation Strategy'

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You've Come a Medium-Length Way, Baby

Harvard Business Review

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.". What Your Stock Price Really Means. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care.

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Elon Musk’s Patent Decision Reflects Three Strategic Truths

Harvard Business Review

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?

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On Undo's Undue Importance

Harvard Business Review

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. They mostly don't care about being able to step back from the brink — that's the price they pay for being early adopters. It's telling us that software as a service just blinked into being mainstream in 2010. The feature?

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

But our predictive power plummets when there is a time delay or non-linearity, as in the case of a CEO who delivers better-than-expected earnings only to wonder at a drop in the stock price. Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.