Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). Christensen. By Clayton M.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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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. I can't off the top of my head think of any huge successes of that ilk in the media world, though (can you?).

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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. In his blog post about the split, Hastings says: "For the past five years, my greatest fear at Netflix has been that we wouldn't make the leap from success in DVDs to success in streaming.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, builds upon the theory of disruptive innovation for which he is well-known. He speaks about his new book examining how successful companies know how to grow. Download this podcast.

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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

JUNE 11, 2013

It is a textbook example of what Clayton Christensen dubs a sustaining innovation , a product aimed at existing customers that improves on what went before it and is able to demand a premium price. Except for a few dark years in the mid-1990s, Apple has always been very good at sustaining innovation.

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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. These require different metrics of success. Columbia University professor Amar V.

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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. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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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. If a start-up starts launches a better product, at a higher margin, to an incumbent's best customers — that's not disruption. That's just.innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We don’t know enough of its finances to know precisely how successful it has been, but with tens of millions of viewers and sponsorship packages north of $2 million, it is a good bet that ESPN has done well on its bet. The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. From Alexander the Great to the modern day, the elements of management — from organizational behavior to supply chain management — have made the difference between success and failure. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation. Today's health-care industry screams for disruption. But disruption solves the more fundamental question: How do we make health care affordable? xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. 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

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. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Kodak is a poster-child.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

What I am pretty sure about is that the how of Apple's fall (or continued rise) will hinge on strategy — because strategy has driven its success. That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. How do I know that? Because strategy is all about making choices.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

It is walking, talking, and continuing to pretend it's alive, but Spotify , Europe's outrageously successful streaming music product, has just shown us the future. But innovation theory can provide a crystal ball; theory could have predicted iTunes' success and it's currently predicting Spotify's success.

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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

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

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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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. Such a dynamic is antithetical to effective innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Dealing with disruptive innovation is difficult at any time, in any industry. That's because, once a monopoly was established, the editorial content of a newspaper had no detectable impact on its financial success. Yes, Warren Buffett has recently bucked the trend with his purchase of the Media General chain. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

It lies behind successful product companies like Apple, Dropbox, and Kickstarter, but it can also lead entrepreneurs predictably to failure. 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

JANUARY 3, 2012

I sit on the Investment Committee, along with Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, primarily getting involved when we are getting close to a big decision about a current or potential portfolio company. This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. What does that actually mean in practice?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you're willing to acknowledge the barriers in your way, there are a few tried and true levers you can pull to ensure your intrapreneurial endeavors are better positioned for success. What's more, his solution applies not just in the case of disruptive innovation, but also the business model innovations that we repeatedly fail to embrace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I recently asked a group of successful professional women to list their favorite books about entrepreneurship, the list skewed largely male. In Mindset , psychologist Carol Dweck writes: "it isn't just our abilities and talent that bring our success — but whether we approach our goals with a fixed or growth mindset."

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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

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. The Benefits of Disruption. Distributed Database. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But, despite their history of success in such deals in other African countries, nothing of substance has materialized in Nigeria. It is not surprising that China’s success in countries like Angola and Sudan did not translate to Nigeria. Disruptive innovation Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But, despite their history of success in such deals in other African countries, nothing of substance has materialized in Nigeria. It is not surprising that China''s success in countries like Angola and Sudan did not translate to Nigeria. Disruptive innovation Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Tesla, Nespresso, and Geox are current successful examples of such high-end disruptions. And so the odds of success of a new high-end disruption are correspondingly small. But how common is this phenomenon today? They learned to repair their cars or to recognize which brand of a particular product was currently best.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

What successful companies are doing right. Before that, successful business models “were created more by accident than by design or foresight, and became clear only after the fact. Introducing a better business model into an existing market is the definition of a disruptive innovation. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

In the late 1990s, I went out to Intel about twenty times, educating about one hundred managers at a time on the principles and language of disruptive innovation. The Celeron processor slowed the advances of disruptive attackers such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Cyrix, and became a substantial business for Intel.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. 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.

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