Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

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? If they'd been able to pay the same amount for different packaging on the open market, what would the outcome have been?

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

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.

System 15

System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

He and his co-author proposed a new causal mechanism that explained the surprising failure of highly-regarded companies. The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

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.

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The people to blame for Yahoo's failed turnaround sit on the company's board. Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." However, during her tenure, Bartz engaged in many efforts to increase Yahoo's stock price , grow earnings, and placate investors.

Christensen 13

Christensen Price CEO Media 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Whenever I share stories about "green" business strategy, someone inevitably asks me whether pursuing sustainability is against a company's best interests. As part of the fast-growing "managed print services" sector, the company shows organizations how to reduce the number of printers they use. But the present status quo.is

Positioning 13

Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

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.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. The Burn Rate 51 was made up mostly of now-forgotten companies like drkoop.com and CDNow. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997.

Training 9

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. 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.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". But apparently, not from the perspective of customers.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen explains how incumbents actually pay a high price for actually doing a great job and constantly improving their technological offerings and creating overserved consumers. Consider the Norwegian technology company Piql. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

Technology 8

Technology Industry Business Model Film 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Life's a storm for most people, most companies, and most governments. But the Kodak ship ultimately drifted so far away from a changing market that no leap year could save it. In the end, the disruptive company, think the Brownie camera creator of 1900, became the disrupted company one hundred and twelve years later.

Leadership 13

Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. 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.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Whether a company is saddled with fixed infrastructure, highly trained specialist employees, or an outmoded distribution system, quickly adapting to new environments is challenging when one or all of those things becomes obsolete.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Advocates of that second, get-big-fast approach inevitably point to companies like Tumblr (the company founded by a high school dropout that Yahoo! For every Tumblr there are dozens of companies that had some success but never broke through — and hundreds more that never really got out of the starting block.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. market in the first 18 months after their introduction.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

A recent survey of General Counsel at 88 major companies conducted by AdvanceLaw (an organization founded by Firoz) supports this argument. Firms surveyed included companies like Lenovo, Vanguard, Shell, Google, NIKE, Walgreens, Dell, eBay, RBC, Panasonic, Nestle, Progressive, Starwood, Intel, and Deutsche Bank.)

Sample 8

Sample Survey Christensen Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

"This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.". Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

health care market more than a decade ago, they were greeted with high expectations. The hope was their lower cost structure and focus on convenience and price transparency — two things sorely lacking in traditional health care — would engender radical changes. When retail clinics entered the U.S. Ultimately, as long as the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Being nice makes you a better leader and your company more profitable – new research proves it. In the Company of Givers and Takers. Connect Then Lead.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

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. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. But they only looked at opportunities in what were already billion dollar markets.

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. Like its 60% price increase did earlier this year, this move is understandably causing consternation amongst some customers. Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.".

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Companies will likely be able to experiment with the shape and size of the cars they make. Clay Christensen used to advise auto manufacturers to focus on their customers’ jobs-to-be-done, understanding when their customers were looking for mobile offices and when they wanted family transport vehicles. Apple is a perfect example.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. These days, it''s an open question whether newspaper companies can maintain any kind of a profit margin at all. . But that''s rare.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 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.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Or a healthcare data offering evaluating physicians’ perceptions on a new drug may be useful not only to brand managers at pharmaceutical companies, but also to portfolio managers at asset management firms seeking to find promising investment opportunities. Consider comparable offerings from competition and their pricing structure.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. When these forces are weak, as in software and soft drinks, many companies are profitable. A tour de force by any measure, “What Is Strategy?”

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

billion rand in 2017 (about $260 million), while the company’s share price appreciated by a whopping 61,800% (from 117 to 72,500 rand). Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Put differently, a company needs focus.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

What successful companies are doing right. The implications of that insight were becoming obvious for companies that sold information, like newspapers and encyclopedias. But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Partisans of rival mobile operating system Android , along with skeptical Wall Streeters , have been raising questions about the company''s ability to keep innovating in the post Steve Jobs era. Can''t innovate anymore, my ass," senior VP of product marketing Phil Schiller declared Monday after unveiling Apple''s new Mac Pro.

Schiller 9

Schiller Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen 9

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Yet, in an economy whereby 60% of GDP and 85% of exports are derived from oil and gas, the need to diversify is evident, not least due to the decline in oil prices since 2014 that many believe is the new normal and the political and economic blockade that was imposed by some neighboring countries in June 2017. Core sectors.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The pattern that simple, convenient, low-priced solutions would grow from humble beginnings to create and transform industries had not yet been identified. Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. Today's leaders have no excuse.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8