Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? Disruptive innovation India'

Technology 11

Technology Innovation CRM Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

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.” insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

The book shared that winners do ALL 4 of the following activities: Strategy - Team based game plans Execution - Top quartile performance Culture - High performance team Flat Structure – Minimize bureaucracy And that they do ANY 2 of 4 following activities: Talent - Build & grow talented employees Innovation - Disruptive, innovative (..)

Tips 34

Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

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.” insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

By 2011 the pulp and paper giant — the world’s oldest corporation, dating back to 1288 — had laid off over one-third of its 30,000 employees. ” Among a number of initiatives to kindle the transformation, Stora Enso took a novel approach to change management. Since 2011 the share price has more than doubled.

Company 8

Company Participative Diversity Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. Pandora''s future success is anything but assured, but they''ve managed to carve out significant share in a space that SiriusXM should have owned. Competition Disruptive innovation' Think about a classic case. Of course not.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 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

JANUARY 30, 2014

And of course Steve Jobs, the crotchety business genius who co-founded the company in 1979 and drove its recent renaissance, died in 2011. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance' That is to say, the uncertainties about Apple’s future trajectory — even over just the next couple of years — are staggering.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 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. And crucial innovation never takes place. All of this comes down to confronting fear: the fear that reminds us, "that's never been done before." Will Yahoo turn this around? Can't tell yet.

Resistance 13

Resistance Disruptive Innovation Business Model Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But whatever the investment, and whether I'm investing personally or professionally for the Disruptive Innovation Fund, my basic parameters are now clear. A shorter version of this essay appears in the April 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review as part of a series of Failure Chronicles. Lesson 2: Establish rules of engagement.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

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. But even great management cannot protect these airlines. Disruptive innovation' The effects could be catastrophic. Will it happen?

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

MARCH 23, 2012

A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". But in thinking it through, I did eventually end up with a highly personal list I call " The Masters of Innovation " (which appears in my latest book ). To see my selections, click here. So what makes a Master?

Innovation 15

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000. In April 2010, V.R.

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

The New York Times, in an article entitled " An Existential Crisis for Law Schools " reported that "only 55 percent of 43,735 graduates in 2011 had a law-related job nine months after graduation." The institutions we have are simply producing more lawyers than there is demand for.

Creativity 8

Creativity Consensus Business Model Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

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." 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.

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. Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market. Soon, carriers everywhere — and, by 2011, all four national networks in the U.S. Etheric Bedlam.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. Other firms with large digital presences, ranging from Apple to Warby Parker, have moved into physical stores. The rise of urban centers led to department stores. Automobiles created suburbs and shopping malls.

Retail 10

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 10

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. Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. index funds).

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 11