Remove Christensen Remove Conference Remove Innovation Remove Products
article thumbnail

Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

article thumbnail

Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Harvard Business Review

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. What really struck me is that both Xerox and Waste Management are doing something mostly unheard of: they're working with customers to help them use less of their traditional product or service.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What Airbnb Understands About Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”

Harvard Business Review

On a recent business trip to London, I surprised the conference organizers by turning down the opportunity to stay at the posh hotel hosting the conference in favor of a rather modest Airbnb flat. Too many companies focus on making their products better and better without ever understanding why customers make the choices they do.

Hotels 8
article thumbnail

Better Management Could Spur a New Era of Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

Going forward, we’ll have to work harder for any gains in productivity and prosperity, and they will come slower. The pace of innovation is still fast, they say, and we can still expect plenty of technological breakthroughs capable of producing extremely high returns. Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management.

article thumbnail

Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Optimization therefore made a lot of sense.

article thumbnail

The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve

Harvard Business Review

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation. They lock themselves into one type of strategy and say, “This is how we innovate.”

article thumbnail

Investors Punish Amazon for Investing in Disruptive Growth

Harvard Business Review

. • Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. On the conference call, Szkutak explained that significant capacity investments are being made in distribution centers so Amazon can continue to grow its core retail business. You typically don't get misunderstood for sustaining innovation.".