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The Real Power of Platforms Is Helping People Self-Organize

Harvard Business Review

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. The business model innovation of accelerators is that they have a systematized selection process that is akin to the application process for college.

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What Driverless Cars Mean for Today’s Automakers

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen used to advise auto manufacturers to focus on their customers’ jobs-to-be-done, understanding when their customers were looking for mobile offices and when they wanted family transport vehicles. We certainly won’t need driver’s seats any longer. Cars will probably be able to have less metal and more glass.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

When they are strong, as in the airline and hotel industries, almost no company earns an attractive return on investment. When these forces are weak, as in software and soft drinks, many companies are profitable. ” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

Making Money with Digital Business Models. But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012. More than 40 years after Southwest Airlines went public, tens of thousands of passengers fly daily with legacy carriers. Competitive strategy Internet Business models'

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