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

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. This is because firms operating in free markets are much more capable of employing emergent strategies than are governments. That was down from 9.7%

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

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

JUNE 26, 2013

In the early days of the Internet, services such as eBay and Craigslist revolutionized secondary markets, making it easy for individuals to buy and sell used goods. Airbnb''s hosts aren''t subjected to any of these rules, the industry complains, and should be. For its part, Airbnb says its hosts and guests are already well-protected.

Hotels 8

Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

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., new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). How do I spot opportunities for innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

Innovation 15

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 15

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 recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 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

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

Last week, Apple beat the already upbeat market expectations, with record revenues of $46.3 Instead, we need to embrace fearlessness, turning people loose to create strategies, disruptive innovations, and next-gen business models. billion and earnings of $13.87 Yahoo's results were, in comparison, limp, with Q4 revenues of $1.17

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

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. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. The Blockbuster-Netflix skirmish is a case in point. postal service.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

But such expectations are unrealistic in many industries. As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

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. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

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 In their 2005 book, W.

Retail 9

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. 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. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. Second, Uber and Netflix appealed to a younger superconsumer before they entered the category, which caught the market leaders flat-footed. index funds).

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 9