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. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Their new book is BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: The One Skill That Changes Everything. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Author or editor of 29 books. Authority on new technology and communication. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Faculty of Columbia Business School.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words Dan, and I hope you enjoy the book. One example from my latest book, Ruthless Focus, is Staples. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Pooneh Mohajer – Inc. Magazine nominee, co-founder and CEO TokiDoki, co-founder Hard Candy, visionary entrepreneur.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. That vestiges of old technologies linger on, capable of being resurrected into viable businesses again, doesn’t seem strange to us.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation. Today's health-care industry screams for disruption. But disruption solves the more fundamental question: How do we make health care affordable?

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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." 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

As we grew, I knew it would be very difficult to continue to create the breakthrough innovations that had led to Medtronic's high growth rate, which had exceeded 18% per annum for a decade. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Perhaps you too are ready to disrupt yourself. Columbia University professor Amar V.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2019

He says by focusing too early on technology and scale, entrepreneurs lose out on the learning that comes from serving initial customers with an imperfect product. Teixeira is the author of the book “Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption.” ”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Are they "real" innovations or gimmicks? Apple and Steve Jobs surely offer a safe haven for innovation elites.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Airbnb growth has been doubling in shorter intervals for some time; last year, it booked 12 to 15 million "spaces.". The company now operates in 190 countries and 28,000 cities, and its founders expect the service to grow to 100 million annual bookings and revenue of $1 billion. In part, the answer comes from applying more technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

We will win with superior technology. Most market disruptions rest on innovative business models — new ways to create, capture, or deliver value. Innovation is all about improved performance. What other innovation myths have you encountered? There's no doubt we missed something important in our list.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Oren Teicher, the ABA’s executive director, told book publishing daily digest Shelf Awareness , “It appears that Amazon.com has again fashioned a program that benefits the retailer it cares about most — that is, Amazon.” This concern is understandable given the magnitude of Amazon’s disruptive force. This is almost double the 27.5%

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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.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation?

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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). But nothing replicates actually being on the ground.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I’m told that all articles on productivity must at some point recite economist Paul Krugman’s line from his 1990 book The Age of Diminished Expectations : Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. Disruptive innovation Economy Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

You may ask, what are some risky investments that stand a high chance of failure but, if successful, enable larger technological leaps that promise earthshaking impact? Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Amazon created the online retail pivot to outcompete brick-and-mortar book retailers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." It's disruption in its most basic form.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Call it "disruption denial.". Technology changes. This is an era of disruption. Not disruption as the occasional event, but disruption as the constant, chronic condition of our professional lives. Disruptive innovation' The fact of the matter is our professional lives now churn with change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). That in turn led to my first book, Unleashing the Killer App, which took an early look at how the Internet was changing the nature of business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

The Verizon Wireless side of the telecom giant, which is 45 percent owned by Vodafone, is also deepening ties with Google for the Droid and betting on its faster fourth generation (4G) network based on new LTE (long term evolution) technology to leap forward in the wireless marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. We wouldn''t dream of going backwards on any of the new technologies, from a laptop to a typewriter, from a mobile phone to a rotary one, from email to an answering machine. Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The most successful entrepreneurship is disruptive — a term entrepreneurs these days have donned as a magic mantle: “We have a disruptive business model, a disruptive technology, and will disrupt the market” goes the startup pitch.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Jim,” as he is known to all, not only did pioneering work in mathematics; he also founded Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that relied on scientists to make predictions and trade in global markets. Forbes My family is obsessed with books and puzzles. BONUS BITS Countering Intuition Has ''Disruptive Innovation'' Run Its Course?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But with literally billions of measurable customer, client, and channel interactions a year, be sure they’re also testing hypotheses that could lead to profitably disruptive innovations. The innovation paradigm shifts from R&D (Research & Development) to E&S (Experiment & Scale).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

My tweak to Christensen's famous term " disruptive innovation " is to describe sustainability-driven creativity as even more heretical; it's about questioning the entire consumption model — it's heretical innovation. It can be painful for companies to threaten their own cash cows, but what's the other option?

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