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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development. The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market.

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How Big Companies Should Innovate

Harvard Business Review

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. Pursuing innovation inside a big company is a balancing act. He was completely right. Test to learn.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon.

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Best Buy Can't Match Amazon's Prices, and Shouldn't Try

Harvard Business Review

Best Buy is a company on the brink. It's too bad they're doing so by fighting their biggest disruptor head-on: by offering to match Amazon's price on everything. 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.

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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. How willing are customers to continue to pay for further improvements in performance that historically merited attractive price premiums? And companies like Google, Apple, and even telecommunications titans are eying the industry.

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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

The metric was an attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on what are extremely disconcerting profitability numbers for the company. Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1 Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big.

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What Business Schools Don???t Get About MOOCs

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. I hope Christensen is right, but I fear that Shirky may be. Business education'