N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Spear McGraw-Hill (2009) The power of causal mechanisms that can drive a continuously self-improving system Clayton Christensen’s high praise of Steven Spear and this book is well-deserved. The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our ability to wield power and control situations is our masculine side, while the capacity for relatedness and love is feminine. To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. Then, I'd suggest having those who you lead take the test as well, delving into the book for tips on developing their strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Posing that question continues to be a powerful way to catalyze important strategic conversations. As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” And yet, more than 50 years later, companies have become worse, not better, at answering it correctly – far worse.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

In leaving Wall Street, I was not only walking away from the money that came with my position, but from a certain level of prestige and power as well. I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. STOP IT.". That decision is all yours.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance. Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. However, it will not succeed here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

What does it take to cause something big about a community to change — something that no one individually has much power over, even something as big as a prevailing mindset? Increasingly there is an insistence that these powerful forces must leverage human creativity, not marginalize it. Tim Ellis/Getty Images.

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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. Loyalty is a powerful source of resilience, as religious groups, movements, and families have always known.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Instead, make it more powerful by sharing more about the context. Help connect work deliverables or professional development to what’s happening at the organizational level. As professor Clayton Christensen writes in his classic HBR article, “ How Will You Measure Your Life? Don’t dilute your message.

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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

MAY 19, 2014

Building a company around a better-performing product means competing head-on with a powerful incumbent that has the information, resources, and motivation to kill your business. Consider, for example, two successful companies that at first seem to result from performance-gaps: Dropbox and Oculus VR. Oculus, of course, was wildly successful.

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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

MAY 15, 2013

The more Prabhakar talked, the clearer it became that DARPA''s intimate historical relationship with surprise offered a powerful conceptual model for serious innovators worldwide. After initially dismissing tablets as inferior to laptops, Microsoft surprised a number of its partners and developers by introducing Surface.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

By showing the power of scale economics, he ushered in an era where behemoths created processes to spread their businesses around the globe. As this knowledge continues to build and propagate, I believe there could be a wave of powerful innovation that addresses global challenges like poverty and resource scarcity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

For the last 200 years, entrepreneurial prowess enabled by financial capital has powered a long surge of economic growth. By bringing customer development closer to the marketplace and enabling rapid learning from failure, the lean start-up movement has great potential to increase the success rate of new ventures.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog. Sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. The vast, vast majority of these are for software development of one sort or another to support the streaming business. This mirrors Hastings's statement about possibly moving too fast. Music to any innovator's ears.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. Rather, it has developed an entirely new business model to profitably exploit a new, superior technology. Crest Whitestrips, for example, are radically more affordable and convenient than going to the dentist to whiten your teeth.

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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. I look forward to hearing more from you. Best wishes Tom.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. George is one of the most thoughtful people you will ever meet.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

(See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. There are examples of universities forging ahead. As one university trustee said to me, “We need to get in the game.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome. They can develop a better understanding of their value proposition and tailor the business models of innovative offerings before wide-scale launches. Have any ideas we should include on harnessing the power of small victories inside of large organizations?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. They Communicate Powerful Narratives About the Future. Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

For a brief while, my husband and I went to the extraordinary lengths of setting up a symbolic “Bank of Daddy” so we could at least demonstrate the power of compound interest. I wanted to feel like good parent by helping my children understand the power of saving toward goals. I wasn’t sure it was actually worth it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Innovators lower the risks of moving beyond their comfort zones by breaking down new-product development into a series of small, low-risk, low-cost experiments designed to test the assumptions behind a new offering. 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

MARCH 16, 2012

Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. This change is just as threatening to established businesses as the process competitors Christensen identified, and just as difficult to respond to. Rather than try to power through with size, we'll have to find power through shared purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. Lindegaard has spent the last few years developing practical guidance about "open innovation."

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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. Each staff member has a powerful voice, and employees are organized into self-managed circles.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. In doing research for my book , I found that companies who are attracting buyers in today's hyper-connected world are developing new approaches and competencies that focus on one thing: customers. Find your customer product developers. out of 5 to 4.5.

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