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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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. Because when these innovations show up, they are better and cheaper right from the start. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Since then, he has written over a half-dozen books and many more Harvard Business Review articles, almost all of which touch on disruption in some way. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists. .* Some can, but many cannot.

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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 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

APRIL 20, 2012

They were all ignored by the wireless operator, who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages and by the crew, who were focused on breaking the speed record. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. In 2012, the Pew Charitable Trusts said in its latest State of the News Media report, "the operating margin for Gannett was 9.9%, New York Times 5.4%, McClatchy 15.1%, E.W. Scripps 6.9%

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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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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). Christensen. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. By Daniel H. By Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Those administrators in the position to understand the imperative to innovate don’t actually have control over purse strings. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Disruptive innovation Education Information & technology'

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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

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Lesson 2: Establish rules of engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. All the techniques and mental tricks executives develop over time to run established businesses can be completely counter to what is needed to successfully innovate. But I urge companies to consider three things.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". The answer to both questions is yes.

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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 29, 2013

Then again, maybe the real key to strategic success in the fast-moving fields Apple is playing in is to keep coming up with disruptive innovations — and be willing to bring them to market even when they disrupt its own products.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. In Capitec’s case, for example, not a single one of its branches that were converted from microlending shops are still in operation today. Resisting revenue temptations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. Sounds great, I guess, and probably even innovative. The subject of whether Apple is still innovative has become an extremely touchy one over the past year.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Dealing with disruptive innovation is difficult at any time, in any industry. And even if they'd succeeded, their news operations would be endangered anyway. And these digital natives have seen no reason to attach expensive news-gathering operations to their efforts. And I'm not sure it ever could have been reversed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Harvard Professor and Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen alerted the world to the pattern of disruptive change almost two decades ago. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream.

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