CEO Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

First speaker is one of my favorites - Clay Christensen. One principle he calls scary is: "Focus on your core competency. Not Dell's core competence - so of course. What is not your core competency today can always be yours tomorrow. I love the stimulation I get from going to seminars like this.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. That’s why there are many inventive organizations, but few innovative ones. Saul cites Whitney Johnson’s description of what jobs social media does for her [3].

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the challenges with disruption is the 'cultural' balancing act required to attend to a core competency (primary revenue driver) while simultaneously recognizing that disruption must occur at the borders. I’d be interested in your comments… Share and Enjoy: View Comments Mark Oakes Mike, Good Post!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

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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. Clay Christensen once used to think so: If anyone can beat the odds against being disrupted, it is our remarkably capable and committed colleagues in higher education..

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Peter Drucker made the point in HBR''s pages 18 years ago, writing that "Core competencies are different for every organization. But every organization needs one core competence: innovation.". We have known for a long time that innovation is the name of the game now.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Focusing on a few key success factors, critical resources, and core competencies (maybe a reference to C. Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”).

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