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.” The industries most susceptible to disruption are those selling information-based services that can be delivered digitally – and a perfect example is the insurance industry.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. It's a fair question. Ideas define our humanity.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. Experimentation is required to build new businesses and industries. It has allowed private industry to pursue emergent strategies in order to discover the new technologies, products, and business models that change the world.

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Those numbers have been a wake-up call for the hospitality industry, and for the local regulators who are responsible for ensuring lodgings are licensed and taxed, and meet minimal standards for health, safety, and hygiene. Airbnb''s hosts aren''t subjected to any of these rules, the industry complains, and should be.

Hotels 8

Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking. Innovators want to work with other innovators.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Remember the Picasso line "good artists copy, great artists steal;" seek to borrow ideas from other industries or geographies. What is disruptive innovation? An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. How do I come up with an idea?

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Led by its Steve Jobs-inspired CEO Lei Jun, the company has experienced breakneck speed since its first smartphone launch in October 2011. Disruptive innovation Global business'

Marketing 8

Marketing B2B Levitt Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As many of you know by now, my new book, Practically Radical , will be published on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. The book is all about how to make big positive change in difficult circumstances — whether it's a slow economy, a tough industry, or a troubled organization. Here's to a productive and prosperous 2011! Bill Taylor.

Taylorism 13

Taylorism Taylor Case Study Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The news is all good for customers, but it makes planning for the industry players much more difficult.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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. With all the buzz around disruptive innovation as a driver of business success in recent years, it’s important not to forget this original meaning.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Instead, we need to embrace fearlessness, turning people loose to create strategies, disruptive innovations, and next-gen business models. In that time, 75% of mobile industry's profits and 40% of its revenue was built from a business line that did not exist 5 years ago. Will Yahoo turn this around? Can't tell yet.

Resistance 12

Resistance Disruptive Innovation Business Model Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Let''s think about the travel industry. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. million people who now work in the industry. [ Disruptive innovation'

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). This is the bestselling bible of the coaching industry, which popularised the most influential model of coaching: the GROW model. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. By Daniel H. By John Whitmore. By David Ulrich.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

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. Just last week, for example, industry research consortium Cable Labs released a new cable transmission standard , DOCSIS 3.1,

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

But such expectations are unrealistic in many industries. The pressure on the company by the investing community (among others) was so severe that it eventually split into two, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions in January of 2011. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

He is one of the most thoughtful students of disruptive innovation you'll meet. He runs a popular blog called Asymco , and his well-thought-out takes on the mobile phone and related industries make him worth following. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , is a must read. Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen. Peter Sims.

Innovation 15

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The recent bankruptcy filing at Toys “R” Us has roiled the toy industry. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. Yet the struggles at the company are not new. The firm was taken private in a $6.6

Retail 9

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Policy makers and industry experts had mocked Coase’s naiveté When testifying at the FCC, the lead question from a commissioner was, “Is this all a big joke?” Etheric Bedlam.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

A 2011 study of teaching practices at the University of Texas at Austin indicated that UT Austin alone potentially could save $266 million a year if it could get half its professors to be as productive in teaching as the top 20%, fire its least productive faculty, and shift their small workload to other professors.

Engineering 9

Engineering Education Class Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. In 2008, under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), the government launched the Early Stage Venture Investment Fund program.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Through these platforms, Main Street investors can screen startups by industry, review business plans, and ask questions of founders directly. Perhaps the biggest sign of future disruption to traditional Wall Street incumbents is how young these alternative investment superconsumers are.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 10