Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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CEO Blog

AUGUST 14, 2011

I read a great book by Clay Christensen , Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen called The Innovator's DNA - Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Christensen is one of the great thinkers of our time. Start by reading his book - Innovators Dilemma where he explains what disruptive innovation is.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Disruptive innovators ask the right questions, observe the world like anthropologists, network for novel ideas, and experiment to make things work. For a more detailed look at these skills, see The Innovator's DNA ). Or, which ones are the companies your targeting in your job search willing to hire you to do?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. Burda says his company (which has its roots in selling sewing patterns) makes pretty good money selling stuff online. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times Co. I am not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

This week marks the release of Clayton Christensen's highly-anticipated book, How Will You Measure Your Life (with co-authors James Allworth and Karen Dillon). The book expands on Christensen's McKinsey-award-winning HBR article , drawing life lessons from the models that form the basis of his business-oriented writing. Persistence.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. Most companies that are great at something — like AOL dial-up or Borders bookstores — do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, builds upon the theory of disruptive innovation for which he is well-known. He speaks about his new book examining how successful companies know how to grow. Download this podcast.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Through the past 15 years my colleagues and I have wrestled with disruption in many contexts. That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. First, disruption directs you to look in places you might otherwise ignore.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. Because when these innovations show up, they are better and cheaper right from the start. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic. If the odds were 99:1 against breakthrough innovation inside the mature company, we'd still see leaders chasing after that golden ring. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Test to learn.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." He and his co-author proposed a new causal mechanism that explained the surprising failure of highly-regarded companies. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. It's an unnerving and unpredictable path, but you'll be in good company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Consider the recent case of The New Republic , in which a new, disruptive CEO came in and vowed to “break s**t.” ” The company’s top journalists balked, the brand was sullied, and the business still struggles. In truth, successful disruption does not merely destroy, but creates a shift in mental models.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. Often when pundits suggest the presence of "high-end" disruptions, what they're really witnessing is a very effective disruption by a better alternative.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Understanding their disappointing performance is particularly important given that retail clinics are viewed as the prototypical example of how disruptive innovation can change the health care system for the better. Disruptive innovation Health Innovation' Retail clinics fit this description to a tee.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

As we grew, I knew it would be very difficult to continue to create the breakthrough innovations that had led to Medtronic's high growth rate, which had exceeded 18% per annum for a decade. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders. This despite the fact that the company lost nearly two billion dollars in the past two years alone. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

Unfortunately, it is a piece of advice that is heeded too infrequently inside large companies. At many companies, the idea evaluation process revolves around detailed Excel spreadsheets, comprehensive PowerPoint documents, and an orchestrated sequence of pre-meetings leading up to a decision meeting. Then, the bar goes up.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Some companies, like Borders, Kodak and Polaroid, ignore the signs. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent. So pay attention. The signs are already there if you listen. Size Doesn't Matter.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There are millions of you, now, in companies large and small all over the world. What Is Disruptive Innovation? Clay Christensen clarifies his theory. You are cross-cultural negotiators and thoughtful strategists, mindful of your impact on the people you lead. And that is incredibly inspiring.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

It lies behind successful product companies like Apple, Dropbox, and Kickstarter, but it can also lead entrepreneurs predictably to failure. Building a company around a better-performing product means competing head-on with a powerful incumbent that has the information, resources, and motivation to kill your business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. However, it will not succeed here.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. But what's most interesting to me isn't that The Innovator's Dilemma was on that list. That was to let profitability outweigh passion: "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Previously, he launched Hulu.com from inside of NBC, and was on the founding team of MLB Advanced Media, the five billion dollar digital media company collectively owned by the Major League Baseball team owners. Larger companies, on the other hand, are more like tankers. Develop a shared innovation philosophy. three times.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The plenary panel during the Summit included execs from both companies proudly talking about these fast-growing, service-oriented parts of their businesses. And what's really important is that these are not just niche product lines, but fundamental shifts in what these companies do. It's increasingly common in the B2B space.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Clayton Christensen and Michael Overdorf's "Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change" was published 12 years ago, but somehow seems even more relevant and prescient now than it did then. Google prides itself on being a nimble and inventive company, even as it grows larger and larger.

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