Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

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. One of the articles reached millions of readers through one of the internet's most respected technology blogs. Incumbents were happy to walk away from these offerings.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

And it is a huge question: it is a life's work-sized-question that can't possibly be answered in a blog post, or even a series of posts. This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Everything. Disrupting How We Work.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The irrational behavior that Apple products provoke represents the piece of the product puzzle that only Apple has uncovered in the mobile-phone market. To understand why Apple's crazy culture is so important, it's necessary to revisit two of marketing's most important contributions. good terms and conditions, excellent delivery).

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Levitt Succession Wireless Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. Today, she’s the Head of Stakeholder Engagement for their in-development Dengue Fever vaccine — one of Sanofi’s largest business initiatives.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. Orchestrating a communications campaign with blogs, articles, and video interviews with internal innovators.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. In his blog post about the split, Hastings says: "For the past five years, my greatest fear at Netflix has been that we wouldn't make the leap from success in DVDs to success in streaming.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. And Clay Christensen talked about the increasing pace of disruption across all sectors. It's a blowback I've gotten from commenters every time I've touched on politics in HBR's editors' blog.

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Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But it’s familiar territory to innovators, who’ve spent decades wrestling with the problem of how to manage uncertainty when there is little to guide them in getting their new offering to a new audience or market. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done.

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