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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” No, it’s to maximize shareholder value. And short-term numbers at that.

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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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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. This reduced the entry barriers in the market, which was then flooded with product.

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How Netflix Can Soothe the Mob but Keep its Disruptive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". The answer to both questions is yes.

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What Driverless Cars Mean for Today’s Automakers

Harvard Business Review

But to capture the full potential of the shipping container, we needed to change how ports operated, how union employees were compensated, how ships were designed, and the very structure of business in the logistics industry. The Chief Marketing Officer of Mercedes likely won’t be spending millions on 30-second spots.

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Memo to the CEO: Customers Are the Key to Growth

Harvard Business Review

Their marketing departments. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In particular, getting customers to market and sell for you. These approaches are often beyond the reach of traditional marketing mindsets and practices — that's why I'm addressing the CEO. Here's how.

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