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. 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. Test to learn.

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

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.

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Christensen Price CEO Media 13

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. They suggested that companies should find a customer who loved the disruptive solution despite its limitations and create a separate organization to commercialize it. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

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'

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Christensen Education Discount Class 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.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

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

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

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. But it also included a certain Internet bookseller from Seattle. In Morten T.

Training 9

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

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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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Quality-sustaining innovations also tend to follow well-known rules: expected sales yields of marketing investment, established norms for product improvements and price increases.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

His approach to splitting out the old business from the new one is a textbook play out of Clay Christensen's prescription for dealing with the possibility of disruption. The previous price hike , the name of the new company , the fact that Qwikster hadn't locked down their Twitter handle — everything was fair game.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Life's a storm for most people, most companies, and most governments. In the end, the disruptive company, think the Brownie camera creator of 1900, became the disrupted company one hundred and twelve years later. Observe the environmental consequences of your company's actions. Take today's most valuable company, Apple.

Leadership 13

Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 13

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

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

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

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 18

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 18

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.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Core r epositioning.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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

AUGUST 26, 2013

He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that. He pointed out that companies had much more to gain in the short-term, and therefore were tooled to compete, by exploiting opportunities already found than by exploring the business landscape for new ones.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

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

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 13

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

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. And so, even with the price premium, Michelin was the only company that had figured out how to produce radial tires profitably at scale.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. For a company our size, with reported revenue of $24.4 But the key was knowing when to stop growing.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

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

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

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

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. health care market more than a decade ago, they were greeted with high expectations.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation 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. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. HP rise had been remarkable. People inside HP were torn about what to do.

Ries 10

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Take my company, athenahealth. Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article. Something similar is just starting to happen in health care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

I’m on the board of Time Warner, we have just parsed off our third major part — our original company, Time Inc., So, it’s not uncommon to add a bunch of companies together, much less software products, and then divest yourself of them as the shareholders think they have more value standing alone than standing together.

How To 13

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

How can you make yourself a connector in your company, and share information with those that need it? The ones you know about are often safe and unobstructed: work for a big company in a narrow role, get a promotion, get a slightly bigger role, take on a mortgage, buy a house, wait for the next promotion to pay down your debt, etc.

Advice 12

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

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). ” Indeed, Capitec is more focused, in terms of what it does and does not do, than most companies and certainly most banks. It serves individuals only, not companies or trusts.

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.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8