Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

This week marks the release of Clayton Christensen's highly-anticipated book, How Will You Measure Your Life (with co-authors James Allworth and Karen Dillon). The book expands on Christensen's McKinsey-award-winning HBR article , drawing life lessons from the models that form the basis of his business-oriented writing. Persistence.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Through the past 15 years my colleagues and I have wrestled with disruption in many contexts. That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. First, disruption directs you to look in places you might otherwise ignore.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. A problem where the solution is less readily apparent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next. Columbia University professor Amar V.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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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. The case studies offered in both of the articles above are good examples of this — cell phone GPS apps and Uber. But the path of disruption is not.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

In an age of awards overkill, it is tempting to see the ranking as just another example of hubris in the business world. Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Understanding their disappointing performance is particularly important given that retail clinics are viewed as the prototypical example of how disruptive innovation can change the health care system for the better. Disruptive innovation Health Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

As we grew, I knew it would be very difficult to continue to create the breakthrough innovations that had led to Medtronic's high growth rate, which had exceeded 18% per annum for a decade. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

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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. For example, every day I hire a Coke to be a wake-me-up mid-afternoon break in my workday. But this is the nature of what Professor Christensen calls low-end disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Clayton Christensen first documented this phenomenon in his study of the disk drive industry , and found that new companies targeting existing customers succeeded 6% of the time, while new companies that targeted non-consumers succeeded 37% of the time. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

But at the Summit, Xerox execs gave an example from their corporate backyard. So instead of paying to dump garbage, customers may get paid for valuable material, which adds up (GM, for example, has made $2.5 Recycling streams can generate income for customers. billion on recycling over the last five years).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. But what's most interesting to me isn't that The Innovator's Dilemma was on that list. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Tesla, Nespresso, and Geox are current successful examples of such high-end disruptions. As a result most of these designs end up being discontinued; a good example is the Michelin PAX tire. Crest Whitestrips, for example, are radically more affordable and convenient than going to the dentist to whiten your teeth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. When we meet with prospective investors, I don't speak much, and for good reason.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. This might seem like a far-fetched example, but this type of failure happens more often than you'd think. He was completely right.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Lewis, for example, offers up the simplest of definitions — “All it really meant was how you planned to make money” — to make a simple point about the dot.com bubble, obvious now, but fairly prescient when he was writing at its height, in the fall of 1999. .” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Denmark, for example, has catalyzed the creation of its electric vehicle infrastructure through progressive tax policy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

It’s expensive, but you agree to pay an innovation premium because you appreciate that in innovation clusters the search for talent is fierce. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. Tyler Cowen''s The Great Stagnation is a prime example; his reading of history convinces him that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

.” That isn’t very specific but I think we can take it to mean that Ford is handling disruption by investing in a separate business unit. This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. As Ford CEO, Mark Fields, explained to The Verge : “Our approach is to first disrupt ourselves.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In her HBR article, "Disrupt Yourself," Whitney Johnson discussed how Clayton Christensen's theories of disruptive innovation can be applied to changing one's career path in a competitive job market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Fortunately, disruptive innovation does not have to. But not all.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Online video provider Hulu is a rare example of a traditional media-backed startup (key investors include Disney, News Corp and NBC Universal) that has created a viable, growing disruptive business. Auguste said the people at the fringes of the core business can often be the best sources for creative ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

I synthesized Innosight's writing, notably Seeing What's Next (my 2004 book with Clayton Christensen) and a 2009 Harvard Business Review article about transformation in clean-tech , with my own field experience to highlight three areas to asses.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

His approach to splitting out the old business from the new one is a textbook play out of Clay Christensen's prescription for dealing with the possibility of disruption. Separation is a key first step to prevent the old business weighing down the new business as it slowly sinks. The answer to both questions is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup. Develop a shared innovation philosophy. Some incremental innovation simply doesn''t require change to the status quo. It wasn''t profitable, or scalable, but it was a brilliant way to learn what the business would really need.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

It too will disrupt; it's just lagging the rest. First, the education market overall clearly fits Clayton Christensen's disruption theory : the seemingly inferior (but less costly) online education experience is coming from below and gradually encroaching on the for-now-superior-but-fat-and-happy classroom world.

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