First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 9, 2012

Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems Vijay V.

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Review Books Innovation Development 75

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. While $300 million might sound like a ridiculously large number to small business owners or entrepreneurs, leaders in many global giants consider the amount a drop in the bucket.

Innovation 15

Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. global information solutions company.

Innovation 9

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

In an era of greater global trade, knowledge transfer and transparency, Prabhakar unsurprisingly reports DARPA''s core value proposition demands disproportionately greater imagination and ingenuity. What role should surprise play in defining one''s innovation brand in the minds of customers and competitors?

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Innovation Christensen Brand Globalization 8

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). ” One in ancestry and the other in drug development.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation. ”

Drucker 13

Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

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. Disruption shouldn't be a term used to describe any successful innovation. Over the course of the past few weeks, two articles crossed my desk touching on this issue.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives.

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Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 12

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. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems. Imagine a Future Where Africa Leapfrogs Developed Economies. Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption.

Management 20

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation. An innovator develops a solution that trades off raw performance (the way it historically was defined at least) in the name of simplicity, accessibility, or affordability. Disruptive innovation'

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Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation Christensen Market Penetration 8

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. At IESE, for example, we are experimenting with splicing material developed for my MOOC into the traditional course on globalization that I also offer. Business education'

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Christensen Education Discount Class 16

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. Such a dynamic is antithetical to effective innovation.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy. laura schneider FOR HBR.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. The general way around this problem seems simple enough — have a process by which you evaluate ideas in different ways at different stages of development (most call this a "stage-gate process."). Then, the bar goes up.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s now a multi-billion-dollar global business. If these participative systems can solve complex optimization problems without central planning, like managing Uber’s logistics or developing the open source Linux kernel, what else can they do?

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

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. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

After 20 years of global negotiations that got us approximately nowhere near where the science tells us we need to be, this time looks different. These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

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. Townes, and Henry L.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. The demand for my ideas surged and soon went global.

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. Companies increasingly use outside specialists to do their work.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Core sectors.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 88

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Why are some brands able to be at once both global and local — to successfully seize the energy of grassroots movements and at the same time leverage corporate assets on a massive scale — while others only come off as artificial and pandering? Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8