Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? This can be done by building alliances of support, having reputable endorsements, establishing high quantity, and using means such as discounts or samples to build a market presence.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. The Innovator's DNA shows readers how to develop these core skills and use them in combination to generate new ideas.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. It didn't work.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no women's voices, at least not in the top 11 that he relies on and that inspire him to greatness. To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. So does leadership.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? That is much easier said than done.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This unnamed company had been the gorilla of its market for the past two decades and had gotten used to throwing its weight around, particularly with suppliers that wanted both the positive reputation effects and the volume that came from serving a market leader. There's nothing wrong with a company being proud of its accomplishments.

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Christensen Middle Management Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. Still, it enabled Medtronic to expand into the Chinese market.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Precise definition of the problem, in this and in every industry, is a prerequisite to the development of a predictably effective solution.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. It must be actionable through tactical implementation.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. 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.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 16

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. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”. So why open the floodgates?

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Some may have short onboarding programs for new employees; at best some multinational companies will budget similar training budgets as in their developed market businesses. Many emerging markets in Africa fall into this ‘not-good-enough’ category. A good training strategy is a competitive advantage.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

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. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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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.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. If you say we should, let’s do it.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. Misconception 3: Distributed management does not affect the C-suite or boardroom.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. And Clay Christensen talked about the increasing pace of disruption across all sectors. Should business leaders be political? Let me rephrase — should business leaders be involved in politics?

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