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. If integrated steel mills had built mini-mills to compete with their disruptors, their margins would have been compressed as they fought for share at the bottom of the market.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

I heard people from all over the world arguing that the US government needs to grab the bull by horns, insert itself much more aggressively in economic planning, and start directing American economic resources to "new growth industries" such as clean energy , high-tech manufacturing, or advanced healthcare solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

When strategy execution moves too far away from the initial strategy, the link between the plan and reality is broken, resources are wasted, and the organization lacks guidance. An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. ” Firmly in the “a business model is really a set of assumptions or hypotheses” camp is Alex Osterwalder, who has developed what is arguably the most comprehensive template on which to construct those hypotheses. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+). It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In particular, watch for markets that historically were inhospitable to entrepreneurs. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . While developing expertise is the most certain way to reduce entrepreneurial risk, many other strategies exist: Process — Using the right processes to deal with market uncertainty (e.g. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Precise definition of the problem, in this and in every industry, is a prerequisite to the development of a predictably effective solution. Because the high end of most markets is where the most attractive profits are made, serving the most profitable customers. xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter. And you can use this knowledge to avoid much of the market risk in building a new product. Oculus, of course, was wildly successful.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

For instance, a recent study of 100 product development teams found that two common disruptors of team harmony, namely diversity and task uncertainty, were positively associated with creative performance. Give the team a chance to settle. Sometimes there is no substitute for the passage of time.

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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. Ries points out that at most companies, “the resources flow to the person with the most confident, best plan. So why open the floodgates?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time. Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography. Conceivably.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As Clay Christensen and colleagues point out in the latest issue of HBR , the consulting industry is ripe for disruption. Here’s a quick (disguised) example: The head of a large consumer products division felt that one of the keys to future growth would be a greater focus on emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. When Uncle Wall Street (also known as Mr. Market ) is in a generous mood, Bezos is always ready to take advantage by putting investment ahead of profitability. billion bond issue just before the debt-market meltdown of autumn 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. From the perspective of how the resources in an organization are deployed and how its processes are organized, this makes sense. Our survival depended upon it.

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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. We also found seven other reasons Africa’s economy might leapfrog the economies of more developed nations. Why the Lean Start Up Changes Everything.

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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. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. A key constraining resource in traditional venture is a VC investor's time. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well.

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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. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. Our research indicated that we needed to increase the resources we were devoting to this aspect of customer service, so step one was increasing the laundry budget by 30%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But it’s familiar territory to innovators, who’ve spent decades wrestling with the problem of how to manage uncertainty when there is little to guide them in getting their new offering to a new audience or market. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. And as we discussed in part two of the series, shared purpose allows many communities to engage with you — without you having to invest resources in controlling their actions. Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Their marketing departments. R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In particular, getting customers to market and sell for you. You have one resource that is peer to the buyer: your customers.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

No ring-fenced resources to pursue innovation. Rather, leaders hoping to boost their ability to drive growth through innovation need to simultaneously direct it strategically, pursue it rigorously, resource it intensively, monitor it methodically, and nurture it carefully. And that was it. No tools or training. No special incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Clayton Christensen has nicely described how the very things that made a company successful, including its efficiency, can also cause it to become obsolete when it's unable to adapt to disruptive change. Only after more than two years of combat and death did units begin adjusting their tactics in Iraq and Afghanistan, but adjust they did.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

As you fly into Doha and cast your eyes over the gleaming towers of West Bay or the striking new facilities emerging on a daily basis both in central Doha and Education City, it can appear incredulous to countenance Qatar as a nation afflicted by the resource curse.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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