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Engaging Leader
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.
The Horizons Tracker
DECEMBER 28, 2021
The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. Bunkered away in R&D labs they often fall into the trap of focusing almost exclusively on the technology they’re developing rather than on the customer need it should be meeting.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 3, 2014
Our organization focuses mainly on plugging the ‘skills gap’: we identify, train, and place underprivileged youths in emerging industries like the hospitality sector. However, our experiences so far have highlighted opportunities for even broader impact through a different approach to in-house training at African companies.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 30, 2013
That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. But what's really going on is that Jeff Bezos has trained elements of the investment community to expect that low profits (or big losses) now represent investments that will eventually pay off, not signs of trouble. Nice timing, huh?
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.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 27, 2016
Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Whether a company is saddled with fixed infrastructure, highly trained specialist employees, or an outmoded distribution system, quickly adapting to new environments is challenging when one or all of those things becomes obsolete.
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