Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In practice, we find important differences. for BMW versus -2.7B

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

After 30 contentious months, Carol Bartz is out as the CEO of Yahoo. Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure. She announced her removal yesterday via an iPad email to her employees.

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Christensen Price CEO Media 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

There are a couple core answers to this question: First, as Xerox's CEO Ursula Burns replied when I asked her basically the same question, "Maybe, but someone else doing it is much worse." But the sustainability lens offers a deeper understanding of market forces. But the present status quo.is

Positioning 13

Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit. That one dark spot on Professor Christensen's prescience was always his predictions on Apple.

Innovation 15

Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

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. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen identify five "discovery skills" that make for innovative mindsets: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking. Once the candidate has devised a strategy, have her present it to your team as if she is presenting to the CEO.

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Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 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

OCTOBER 26, 2012

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. I had begun to focus too much on impressing other people and positioning myself to become CEO. But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.".

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No. billion bond issue just before the debt-market meltdown of autumn 2008. In Morten T. Nice timing, huh?

Training 9

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

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. What pushed us to pull the trigger was our comfort level with the founder and CEO Bom Kim. My business partner Matt Christensen had invested with Mr. Kim previously -- and made money.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

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.". Xerox advises companies on how to save money on document handling, and holds a sizable 48 percent market share in the broadly defined, and surprisingly large, $7.78

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? 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. He was completely right. Would Gerber own today's V8? Can it be profitable?

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. The wrong answer would be to say, “No, because their first product started in the high end of the market.”

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But the Kodak ship ultimately drifted so far away from a changing market that no leap year could save it. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). Attempted course corrections came, but too little and too late. Totally upended.

Leadership 13

Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

The company is already in market and earning revenue. "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. It needs to figure out its business model before it raises more money.". Piyush looked at me blankly.

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 12

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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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

John Maynard Keynes very famously proposed that the actions of rational agents in a market were akin to a fictional newspaper contest , where entrants were asked to pick who, out of a set of six women, was most beautiful. The financial markets put pressure on you to generate the type of returns they’re looking for: quarterly results.

Finance 10

Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

It's apparently a belief shared by many stock market analysts, who often extrapolate future earnings on the basis of historical results. Smart analysts, therefore, supplement their earnings forecasts by carefully parsing what the CEOs of the companies they track are saying and comparing those statements to changes in the R&D budgets.

Strategy 8

Strategy Christensen Technology Long-term 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. link] Bill Wood Okay, I reposted your piece on CEO strategy direction.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Developing focused expertise can be a challenge when you’re starting a company: a founder has to do some of everything, but the role of startup CEO is not nearly as transferrable a skill as domain expertise, since your employability strongly depends on your company’s success (in which case, you won’t need the job).

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

To get that right, companies have to understand what Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen calls the theory of Jobs to Be Done. Measuring Marketing Insights. “When you storyboard something, the more realistic it is, the more decisions you have to make,” CEO Brian Chesky told Fast Company.

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Hotels Christensen Competitive Advantage Conference 8

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. They worked on numerous initiatives in large, growing markets that were adjacent to or somewhat related to HP's existing business. HP rise had been remarkable.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

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

JANUARY 31, 2013

First, the education market overall clearly fits Clayton Christensen's disruption theory : the seemingly inferior (but less costly) online education experience is coming from below and gradually encroaching on the for-now-superior-but-fat-and-happy classroom world. Nitin Nohria, Tom Tierney (then-CEO of Bain & Co.)

Education 8

Education Tacit Knowledge Execution Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. As an analogy, think of sales and marketing and the rise of CRM. Amidst the hype and enthusiasm about having an outpost, CEOs and Chief Innovation Officers must look for ways to create a return on investment, not just a return on coolness. Related Video.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman has said his company loses roughly €400 million annually from climate change and extreme weather.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

labor market since the Great Depression, we learned Friday that 203,000 new jobs were created in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 7%. And while Clay Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever say the consultants are next , it’s not showing up so far in the jobs numbers. Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 14

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

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. By not having achieved product-market fit anywhere, and never having developed strong processes to ensure standardized operations, a startup in many senses resembles a speedboat. Patient capital.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Pressure has never been greater on CEOs to create organic, sustainable growth. Their marketing departments. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In particular, getting customers to market and sell for you. Or to provide a product review on any site important to your market.

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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Nathaniel Koloc, the CEO of ReWork , which provides recruiting services to companies that offer purposeful work, says that’s because no one really ever teaches us how: “Very few parents, teachers, and mentors urge us to think about this or give us mental models to use,” he says. Christensen. What the Experts Say.

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. So she wrote a memo to the CEO explaining why gender balance is good for business. If you say we should, let’s do it. Initially there was no buy-in.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Its a precursor  probably the most important precursor  to Clayton Christensens later work on disruptive innovation. In it, Foster argues that technological discontinuities were enablingupstart attackers to push aside market-leading defenders far more frequently than was then commonly understood.

Technology 8

Technology Company Venture Capitalist Media 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. These misconceptions lead CEOs and other would-be change agents to underestimate the challenges arising from holacracy.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8