Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That’s what Brand Positive co-founder Sean Pillot de Chencey teaches in his book Influencers & Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Businesses. I recently had the opportunity to ask him about his work and his book. Sean emphasizes that a relentless focus on the customer is essential.

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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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LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. These new insights shape our future actions that are even better calibrated to the needs of the market. Savoring Surprise.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them? With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective.

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Tony Mayo

JULY 26, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. The book lays out a Theory of Jobs to be Done in a very compelling way. In the book, they explore the example mentioned in the article in more detail.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. leadership #EI #HR #coaching #focus #mindfulness 59 45,200 769 64,900 Daniel Pink Personal Development Author of 5 books. Author of twelve books. Author of @MeasureYourLife. Father of 3 kids.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. the iPod disrupting the Walkman.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The primary target of Lepore’s attack was Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, whose groundbreaking book, The Innovator’s Dilemma coined the term disruptive technology (later transformed into disruptive innovation ). However, Lepore does Christensen’s work a tremendous disservice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. This brings to mind the dilemma faced by bookseller Barnes & Noble (B&N) back in the 1990s, when Amazon started selling books online. They say yes; I say no..

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering.

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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

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. In financial terms these were small bets, with very low overhead.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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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 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

AUGUST 22, 2011

What you can know is that the markets for disruptive innovations are unpredictable, and therefore your initial strategy for entering a market will be wrong," writes Christensen. For example: when I left Wall Street in 2005, I was writing a children's book and pitching a reality TV show about soccer in Latin America: neither transpired.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” This approach begins by focusing on the customer value proposition — what Christensen calls the customer’s “job-to-be-done.” In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets.

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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. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The wisdom of such a strategy has been discussed in business circles for years, most notably in the work of Harvard's Clayton Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ). I interviewed Xerox's CEO Ursula Burns for my last book, Green Recovery , and asked her about this strategy. Maybe, but someone else doing it is much worse. ".

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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. As professor Clayton Christensen writes in his classic HBR article, “ How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

As Ellen Langer wrote in her book, Mindfulness , when individuals, teams and organizations continue to see today’s world through the lens of yesterday, they are likely to keep applying yesterday’s strategies when doing so is no longer effective. Our team’s design and/or organizational structure is outdated.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

So it shouldn't surprise that its founder — long a devotee of all things Zen — would be inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda and his Autobiography of a Yogi — reportedly the only book Jobs had downloaded onto his iPad. They inspired how he integrated the aesthetic look with the functional feel of the phones. Why not a muse?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tarun Khanna in particular has written some useful books on the topic.) One group wanted me to detail the essential habits of disruptive innovators (where I happily leveraged the great work on the innovator's DNA by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen). India and China are fascinating, diverse, and distinct.

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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

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. The technology was great. The technology was remarkable and it could fit into your pocket. HP rise had been remarkable. Their ideas made sense. But they still failed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Here’s a review of the five core components of resilient systems, which I pulled together for my new book, The Big Pivot , based in part on two other important works: Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder and Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back , by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy. Diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

I synthesized Innosight's writing, notably Seeing What's Next (my 2004 book with Clayton Christensen) and a 2009 Harvard Business Review article about transformation in clean-tech , with my own field experience to highlight three areas to asses.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen has taught us this is not possible — that an organization will not cannibalize itself. Still another theme – putting information in the right place at the right time (with or without some enabling information technology) can be found in several articles, including “Stat!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Because of my Institutional Investor ranking, and advances in technology that made virtual co-location possible, I was able to persuade Merrill Lynch to let me work out of my home in Boston. After leaving Merrill Lynch, I co-founded Rose Park Advisors with Clay Christensen, veering ever closer to independence.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. For example, Netflix might have a passionate set of enthusiasts who review films and recommend content in the same way that GoodReads offers book enthusiasts a venue to exchange ideas. There's no way we could ever be this collaborative.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

According to Kathleen Christensen, Program Director at the Alfred P. Transition from an employee-initiated request system into a proactive manager-initiated program supported by tools and technologies. And these options improve employee engagement and productivity.”

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