Career Christensen Products Team 
Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
.): The act of using a practice employed by companies — wherein a product deemed inferior by the market leader (Amazon v. Yellow Cab) eventually upends the industry — and applying it to yourself and your career. Borders, Uber v. If you want to walk through the doors of opportunity, play to your distinctive strengths.
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 rolled-out a new product?
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Mills Scofield
APRIL 15, 2012
Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. Most organizations think of innovation in terms of creating value: products, services and experiences. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them.
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. Some are little (pass the time while waiting in line); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). When we buy a product, we essentially “hire” it to help us do a job.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.
Chart Your Course
JUNE 30, 2016
In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Christensen. By Jim Collins. By Patrick M. 2) Fear of conflict. By Clayton M.
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