Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

CEOs of competing automakers are reassured to see a large group of consumers getting excited about purchasing cars again. This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. As Ford CEO, Mark Fields, explained to The Verge : “Our approach is to first disrupt ourselves.”

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Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” It is one of the top selling business books of all time and a favourite among CEOs. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Christensen.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Usually, startup success means hiring a “professional CEO,” so domain expertise also means you have the option of staying on at your company and learning the CEO ropes.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

When asked recently to name the one attribute CEOs will need most to succeed in the turbulent times ahead, Michael Dell, the chief executive of Dell, Inc., Another of the respondents, McCormick & Company CEO Alan D. Even when operating within familiar confines, curious leaders tend to try to see things from a fresh perspective.

Christensen 8

Christensen Open-book CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. In Morten T.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 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

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. They wind up maintaining course without appropriately considering emerging risks, debating alternative scenarios, or exploring new courses of action.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. The company no longer has any operations at all in Silicon Valley. 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

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).

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

More recently, Clayton Christensen has outlined how managers’ acquired habits in allocating capital are putting capitalism itself at risk. Clearly, investing in empowering innovations could be made more the norm, supported by revised approaches to everything from entry-level hiring to CEO compensation.

Management 11

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. But if you go to the operational side of the institution, they feel investing capital is the business of their money managers, so they in turn pass the buck or avoid the decision entirely.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

I had worked on a variety of volunteer projects with Clayton Christensen over several years, which led to an overlap of exchanges, including having several common acquaintances. I suspect you will find that nearly are with people where there is an overlap of work, civic, school, church, neighborhood, and/or childhood ties.

Christensen 15

Christensen Project Social Capital Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations.

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. These approaches are often beyond the reach of traditional marketing mindsets and practices — that's why I'm addressing the CEO. One place business leaders are not looking for reliable help with this challenge? Their marketing departments.

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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 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.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

CEOs and organization leaders who read only his column (or worse, only the title) and split HR as he suggests, will make a serious mistake that will destroy value for their shareholders and constituents. Lets be clear. Ram Charans recommendation is wrong. While he may be wrong, he may also be as wise as Solomon.

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And Indian mobile phone provider Bharti Airtel uses IBM to manage its computer systems and Ericsson to operate its cell tower infrastructure. The technology (browser-based apps and "cloud" infrastructure) for these apps didn't exist five years ago, according to Steve Christensen, CEO of Babbleware.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. Suddenly, chief diversity officers in corporations around the US started inviting me to speak to their CEOs on how to drive innovation through diversity. Sure enough, serendipity often is the story.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. In “Change Through Persuasion” (2005), another piece coauthored with Michael Roberto, he departed from that norm, describing how Paul Levy, then CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, led a painful turnaround.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. In Capitec’s case, for example, not a single one of its branches that were converted from microlending shops are still in operation today. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Barksdale was the veteran of IBM, FedEx and AT&T Wireless (he mostly worked at it when it was called McCaw Cellular) who was brought on a few months after Netscape’s founding to provide adult supervision as its CEO. HBR: Clay Christensen has described this progression in technology from the integrated product to the modular.

How To 13

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage. Given AmEx’s operations, consumer base, and resources, it’s well positioned to do so. First, we need to win credibility , not by paying lip service to the concept of authenticity, but by truly earning our mission. The contrast is stark.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses. .

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78