First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J. Spear McGraw-Hill (2009) The power of causal mechanisms that can drive a continuously self-improving system Clayton Christensen’s high praise of Steven Spear and this book is well-deserved.

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Books Review Operations System 75

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. If you want your organization to survive and thrive well into the 21 st Century, read this book.

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Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 87

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. We’re glad to hear that you thought the article worked as an entire book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Capital markets is one explanation. Some can, but many cannot.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

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.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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).

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Her confession was blurted out in the midst of our first conversation about the new digital marketing strategy which we would eventually advise them on: "You know, I don''t think I believe in segmentation anymore." In others, marketers were still adamant that segmentation was the only way to go, but couldn''t explain its benefits.

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Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. They wind up maintaining course without appropriately considering emerging risks, debating alternative scenarios, or exploring new courses of action.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. Thanks David.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Eight years ago I published a book, The Medici Effect , that examines how and why groundbreaking ideas occur at the intersection of different cultures, industries, and disciplines. Once the book had been written, I had to market it. Around the same time that my book came out, so did at least another 15 new books on innovation.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Moreover, in advance, you can never be entirely sure that your original market choices will play out and will generate sufficient income by themselves. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Their marketing departments. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In doing research for my book , I found that companies who are attracting buyers in today's hyper-connected world are developing new approaches and competencies that focus on one thing: customers. Here's how.

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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Such platforms would add a transaction layer between consumers and program operators and merchants, likely generating a small per-transaction cost, which could grow over time, much like OTA fees. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Insight Center.

Loyalty 12

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 12

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, a new book by Kamiar Mohaddes, Jeffrey B. The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78