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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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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Creativity Consultative CEO System 70

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. Often, an explicit process can help. Elicit conflict and adversity. Sometimes there is no substitute for the passage of time.

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . Find a couple of mentors outside your company (from the same group mentioned above), who are willing to spend time with you every month, and focus on both individual performance and processes to manage your domain. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Show you are really listening by asking great questions, clarifying what you’ve heard, or acknowledging how you’re processing the information. 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.

Management 15

Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

But just like Autotune and other technologies that allow passable music talents to turn into global powerhouses, lower costs and increased understanding of the process of innovation can allow anyone to be a competent entrepreneur. All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

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.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

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.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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. Agile methods and Scrum are creating space for individuals to self-organize and work in iterative processes. laura schneider FOR HBR.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

The process used to manufacture them was completely different from the one they used to make bias-ply tires. 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. incumbents. To produce radials, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

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?

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome. In the process of experimentation and iteration, companies will expose how products and services can come together more effectively. It adds a bit of humility to the process. 3) Measure, validate, repeat. These are by no means comprehensive.

Innovation 9

Innovation Execution How To Ries 9

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.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

That’s a shame, because the discipline of the innovation process is tailor made for addressing the wealth of unknowns that moving to a digital business model entails. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done. Trap 3: Thinking the Sale is the Finish Line.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. I think there is an analogous process going on with the organizational structure of businesses themselves; that aside from market-specific competition from below, there is also competition from disruptive organizations that are finding new ways to get work done.

Christensen 16

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

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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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

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."

Innovation 15

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The result is a maze of point systems and redemption options, with cumbersome processes for exchanging points among program partners. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. IBM, for example, is partnering with startup Loyyal to develop blockchain infrastructure for loyalty and rewards programs.

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Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 12

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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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

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.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. Those paths were developed by people who rely on process and rules to tame the chaos that is life. Maxwell Wessel. There are a thousand paths in front of you. Whitney Johnson.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12