Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. And is it possible to encourage the “right kind” of questions — the ones most likely to lead to productive results?

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

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 25, 2011

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years.

Mentor 15

Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. But by the mid-1990s, the challenges mounted. A billion dollars kind of became a mantra.".

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years. Patient capital.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

I wanted to feel like good parent by helping my children understand the power of saving toward goals. But without good options for doing that, I ended up doing nothing – what Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen calls “non consumption.” That shift made all the difference.

Productivity 10

Productivity Products Christensen Power 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. That's essential to tweaking products and marketing campaigns — or overhauling them when necessary. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal. Orders go from the retailer to overseas vendors that manufacture products.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Holacracy was supposed to revitalize the online shoe store’s culture and its reputation as a fun place to work, but the ever-expanding circles of responsibility that have emerged within the company and the resultant endless meetings are becoming a drain on productivity. Misconception 2: The goal justifies any means.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

So the goal should not be greater efficiency, but rather efficiency where it makes sense. An over-focus on efficiency can also make it more difficult to cope with gradual change.Eliminating errors by finding an optimal way of solving a problem, and then ruthlessly adhering to it, is at the root of quality control and improved productivity.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

A number of scholars at Harvard Business School have gotten in on the act, studying how crowds solve problems in new product development, scientific breakthroughs, and even trying to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. Set norms for contributions early.

Christensen 8

Christensen Open-book Software Innovation 8