Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

It's taken as a given that when we're considering any change — in business or in our personal lives — that we compare it against a world where things stay as they are. The companies that don't pursue deep, sustainability-driven innovation that challenges business models will become irrelevant.

Positioning 13

Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Most disruptions have three enablers: a simplifying technology, a business model innovation, and a disruptive value network. In the past, business model innovation was common in health care. However, business model innovation has stalled in the last three decades. Regulation should facilitate it.

Health Care 15

Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

New technology is so much fun that it can be easy to forget that new business models are what drive industries forward, and that old technology can still be valuable as long as it is paired with a smart strategy. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. But who wants to stand up for old technology? Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Industry Business Model Film 8

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. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

System 15

System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

Though you might not even be aware of the competitor that is attacking the music titan of the past decade, that iTunes business model is about to be blown up completely and swiftly. But this is the nature of what Professor Christensen calls low-end disruption. It's business model innovation.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. Experimentation is required to build new businesses and industries.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The disruptive innovator first targets a market segment that embraces those tradeoffs and builds a business model around simplicity and affordability. During its up-march, the disruptor continues to sharpen a distinct business model that makes incumbent response increasingly difficult. But different is not disruptive.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation Christensen Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business models, the questions they face are questions of unprecedented uncertainty, where past experience may be no help. The greatest temptation is to replicate your current business model digitally. Insight Center.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. This means that the more users and content-providers you sign up, the better the business model will work. Business models and competitive advantages are complex systems.

McCallum 12

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

What is a business model (and how do I innovate one)? How a company creates, captures, and delivers value; codifying the current business model is the critical first step of business model innovation. Build a business model designed around the low-end customer's job-to-be-done.

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

It poses a threat to carmakers’ business model of selling people cars. ” That isn’t very specific but I think we can take it to mean that Ford is handling disruption by investing in a separate business unit. This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change. or MySpace or Pointcast or whatever. How do you survive such a seemingly unending series of waves?

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 14

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. Apple with iTunes, $0.99

Trends 15

Trends Christensen Business Model Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Clay Christensen clarifies his theory. ” What Is a Business Model? What Is Disruptive Innovation? What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop. Research shows that handwritten notes are more memorable. Setting the Record Straight on Switching Jobs. A lot of the conventional wisdom is wrong. Advice from “Mr.

Article 8

Article Christensen Disruptive Innovation Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

Beginning with gathering basic resources and ending with delivering goods to customers, markets and businesses will optimize the value chain in order to deliver goods and services to consumers at optimal levels. However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant.

Technology 14

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Managers need to understand the role of technological maturity, the value of experience, and how employees’ technical skills develop under different business models. The reason: a combination of new technology and a new business model. But this new business model demanded different sorts of skills.

Education 8

Education Technology Business Model Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. What's more, his solution applies not just in the case of disruptive innovation, but also the business model innovations that we repeatedly fail to embrace.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Building a company around a better-performing product means competing head-on with a powerful incumbent that has the information, resources, and motivation to kill your business.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Advice Disruptive Innovation CRM 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies. These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

"This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.". Same business model architecture, two entirely different responses: obvious or unachievable. It's something that allows organizations to do things entirely differently — if we let it become the backbone of our business models.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

The Wall Street Journal article noted that Innosight founder Clayton Christensen favors three categories of innovation: efficiency (doing the same thing faster or cheaper), sustaining (making current solutions better), disruptive (transforming complicated solutions into simple, accessible, affordable ones).

Innovation 16

Innovation Christensen Definition Idea Generation 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

As CEO Dave Steiner put it, "When your company is called Waste Management, and your customers all talk about 'zero waste,' you better change your business model.". what is driving the transformation of Xerox to a services-led business.".

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Perhaps you've known an entrepreneur, or been that entrepreneur who has pulled together a solid business plan with a perfected pitch and you still have no takers. According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Research by Clayton Christensen, Rita McGrath, Richard D'aveni, and Richard Foster make very clear that we are in a new era where competitive advantage is a transitory notion. Ronn agrees, but notes that the responsibility for such systemic work ultimately rests with a company's leadership team. And it's absolutely necessary.

Innovation 11

Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

billion before it had even $20 million in revenues) or YouTube (which was sold 19 months after its founding to Google for close to $2 billion), or other companies whose hyper-growth attracted suitors before a viable business model emerged. just acquired for $1.1 But it''s important to consider how incredibly rare these examples are.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

And as Clayton Christensen described in The Innovator’s Dilemma , it can be very difficult for management teams and their organizations to acknowledge that the paradigm around them has changed, and instead of responding in an adaptive manner, too many organizations redouble their investments in legacy business models or technologies.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

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.

Price 8

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Within that structure, questioning by employees can be perceived as a challenge to authority.

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

How often have you seen a firm revolutionize an industry by creating a superior product using a new business model? Rather, it has developed an entirely new business model to profitably exploit a new, superior technology. Tesla, Nespresso, and Geox are current successful examples of such high-end disruptions.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

That''s partly because, as Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman, and Willy Shih wrote in the 2008 HBR article "Innovation Killers," standard financial metrics make new investments look much less attractive than existing business lines.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. And use a business model with structural cost advantages (relative to existing solutions). Professor Clayton M. Despite the many differences in application, most people agree on the following.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

It needs to figure out its business model before it raises more money.". "The company needs to start raising money soon, or it is never going to realize its full potential," Piyush argued. That's utter baloney," I responded. The company is already in market and earning revenue. Piyush looked at me blankly.

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

The business models of universities are being challenged, and it looks like the universities are out to lunch. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

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. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

Innovation 9

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15