Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” For us, applying technology in a totally new way — to reserve and open the cars — was a key enabler of this new market segment. Uber doesn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. The rest, of course, is history. ” I agree.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

” Judging by the headlines and opening lines of recent articles and business books, digital is about to disrupt your industry and you with it – unless you act now (and buy the book). Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. Complements are not substitutes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Over the course of the past few weeks, two articles crossed my desk touching on this issue. Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. The pace of disruption is changing. But the path of disruption is not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. All these sparks of activity are generating heat and light.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Most disruptions have three enablers: a simplifying technology, a business model innovation, and a disruptive value network. The technological enabler transforms a technological problem from something that requires deep training, intuition, and iteration to resolve, into a problem that can be addressed in a predictable, rules-based way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. ” [Ford Smart Mobility’s] role is to design, develop, build, invest, and grow these mobility services.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In January 1980, Harvard's Ted Levitt wrote an article titled " Marketing Success Through Differentiation of Anything." Decades later, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expanded on this concept by putting structure around the augmented product. This isn't meant to be one of those articles. And it shows in profit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. This was the core thesis of the first article in this series. He was completely right.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

And, on the other hand, it includes being adaptive and agile, demonstrating an ability to connect with different kinds of people through many different communication platforms and technologies. Help connect work deliverables or professional development to what’s happening at the organizational level.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. Conceivably.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

” That’s a concept Drucker introduced in a 1994 HBR article that in fact never mentions the term business model. They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions. ” One in ancestry and the other in drug development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

But just like Autotune and other technologies that allow passable music talents to turn into global powerhouses, lower costs and increased understanding of the process of innovation can allow anyone to be a competent entrepreneur. That point led to spirited discussion with my VC friends. More focus must go to solving the first mile problem.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. They worked with little coordination and control from HQ.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. Fourth, a focus on developing leaders. As one data point, while something in the range of 1.9% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. At EMC, we make up for the staffing shortfall by assigning all our consultants to an “office development” team, such as recruiting, training and onboarding, knowledge management, or social committee.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. Forbes.com uses external bloggers (not just internal staff) to write articles. The technology (browser-based apps and "cloud" infrastructure) for these apps didn't exist five years ago, according to Steve Christensen, CEO of Babbleware.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. ” They Develop a Road Map Before Disruption Takes Hold.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? Related Video. Basic research.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Best known as the technology behind bitcoin, blockchain enables a ledger of transactions to be shared across a network of participants. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. How technology is transforming transactions.

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