Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First, some background: On September 17 th , NASA announced the winners of the $6.8bn “space taxi” contract which will fund the development and launch of new platforms to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. At first glance, it appears that Blue Origin is merely supplying a resource, its innovative BE4 engine, to ULA.

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Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Consider the recent phenomena of shoestring 3D design labs or the biofabrication labs at MIT , which are taking the plunge into synthetic biology with far fewer resources than the genetic engineers at government labs. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. ” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system.

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Innovation Company Engineering Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Develop Creative Discontent. Frugal innovations require frugal thinking — an ability to engineer cost?conscious

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Insight Center.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

Companies that start at the bottom of the market develop overhead structures that are profitable at low unit prices. Conversely, firms that start at the top of the market develop costly overhead structures that require high unit prices to support their high service levels. Disruptive innovation'

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Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

What defines success for a business? The leading enterprises of the world were ones that fashioned a profitable business model and leveraged it over time. Both the Bing search engine and the Windows Phone were just too late to mount serious challenges to Google, on the one hand, and the iPhone and Android, on the other.)

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Company Software Long-term Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

.” When a company fights this same type of market inefficiency, it can create a sizable business. But “on-demand” is not synonymous with waste arbitrage or business model innovation. ” At Sapphire, we’ve developed a framework that helps us evaluate opportunities.

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Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? In researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that every innovation strategy fails eventually, because innovation is, at its core, about solving problems — and there are as many ways to innovate as there are types of problems to solve.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. Wherever disruptive innovations have captured mind-or marketshare, regulators — not users and consumers — quickly become the customer most worthy of woo. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Four million subscribers later, Khoja was running the largest company in Afghanistan and still marveling: " Those were our engineers."

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Engineers gave it rave reviews, and investors were lined up. Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel. Then he paused.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Four million subscribers later, Khoja was running the largest company in Afghanistan and still marveling: " Those were our engineers."

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

. • Amazon Kindle — disrupting the paper book format and paper book retailers. CreateSpace — a self-publishing solution that disrupts traditional publishing houses. Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12