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.

Health Care 15

Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

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.

Management 17

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 17

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.”. Or the person with no failures on their record.”

Company 9

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 9

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 Brand Strategic Planning 413

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen memorably termed this the "growth-gap death spiral" in his 2003 book The Innovator's Solution ). Do we need to increase the amount of resources (both human and financial) we are investing in growth? To get through the corporate approval gauntlet you have to project big numbers.

Innovation 14

Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

We seed our organizations with resources — people, capital, and equipment — and those resources have productive value in certain areas. Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution How To Ries 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. Other universities followed.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

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.

Hotels 8

Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. Everything. Disrupting How We Work.

Christensen 15

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But you know, my leadership team is smart. The company's core control mechanisms — the means by which it decides how to allocate resources, start and stop projects, and so on — were organized to do one thing: minimize mistakes. "That's just what my life is like. And they've been hugely successful.

Innovation 14

Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen 14

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'

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14