Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Only those who are able to reinvent themselves, imagining new solutions, and developing new products and services to be relevant in the future will be poised to thrive. Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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JUNE 9, 2012

Vaitheeswaran Harper Business/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2012) A brilliant examination of “the new paradigm for sustainable economic development in the twenty-first century” How innovation happens is rapidly changing. The [.].

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Understanding these pieces is critical for strategy teams, product development units, and organizational leaders.

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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 5, 2013

In the December 2012 Harvard Business Review, Clayton Christensen and Max Wessel shared new ideas about surviving disruption. Christensen and Wessel proposed a systematic way to chart the path and pace of disruption so organizations can fashion a complete strategic response. The key is developing a deep understanding of the ?jobs?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In The Innovator’s DNA , co-authors Jeffrey Dyer , Hal Gregersen , and Clayton Christensen (The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution) built on what is known about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move from idea to impact.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Efosa Ojomo, global prosperity lead at the Clayton Christensen Institute, argues that international aid is not the best way to develop poor countries, nor are investments in natural resource extraction, outsourced labor, or incremental improvements to existing offerings for established customer bases.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

In a recent report from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, experts analyzed how expanding precision medicine offers health care providers new opportunities to provide high-value care. Their conclusion: the expansion of precision medicine could have a major impact on outcomes and costs. As Harvard Business School professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” Christensen, Raynor, and McDonald argue that Uber is not disruptive because it offers neither a low-end service, nor a new market. Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. By Dick Grote. and Are Ready to Do It Again.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” No, it’s to maximize shareholder value. And short-term numbers at that.

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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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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. Although not all hard tasks are worth doing, most things worth doing are hard, which is why we aspire to them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. At IESE, for example, we are experimenting with splicing material developed for my MOOC into the traditional course on globalization that I also offer. The question should be, Can we do better?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. In such a world, Groupon would have stuck to its home market of Chicago until it developed a business model that was profitable at scale in one market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma. Firms guided by embedded lead users cannot be disrupted in the Christensen sense. It didn't work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. What you can know is that the markets for disruptive innovations are unpredictable, and therefore your initial strategy for entering a market will be wrong," writes Christensen. STOP IT.".

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MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. Because when these innovations show up, they are better and cheaper right from the start.

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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. Initially, Christensen claimed that the disruptions he observed occurred over the course of 10-30 year cycles. But the path of disruption is not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. With all this learning by doing, setbacks will be inevitable.

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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 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. For example, the outposts of a pharma company develop and distribute a company-wide newsletter of the latest trends and news from the hotspot. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Shortcuts and priority lanes must be thought of.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

They too developed a business model based on a pool of freelance consultants, but rather than rely on a database, a matching platform, or some other digital search function, they understood that in their business – high end strategy consulting – there was no substitute for really knowing people.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. ” [Ford Smart Mobility’s] role is to design, develop, build, invest, and grow these mobility services. Here is the problem: none of the three disruptors I have outlined here are traditional Christensen-style innovations.

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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

JULY 22, 2011

To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done. But this is the nature of what Professor Christensen calls low-end disruption. Indeed, Spotify's 12 million tracks don't compare with those available on iTunes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change. How do you survive such a seemingly unending series of waves? Nice to hear!

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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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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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OCTOBER 26, 2012

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.". Clay observed that few people, if any, intend at the outset of their career to behave dishonestly and hurt others.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

So it is more personal but, more importantly, it is the sort of thing that is easy to pause, rewind, and review. And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. These developments stand in sharp contrast to what Apple has focused on. Vi Hart's style is different. That takes work and imagination to get right.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Several years ago Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma ) and colleagues at Innosight coined the phrase "jobs-to-be-done" as part of a methodology they use to build new billion dollar businesses. If you like to try new things, think about hobbies or activities you could engage in to develop new skills.

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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. xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D., Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School. In the past, business model innovation was common in health care.

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