Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In addition to using less energy to run machines, slashing paper use also saves large amounts of energy and water upstream in the paper production process. Meanwhile, the other stream of waste will create a potentially significant source of clean energy (adding to the sustainability win).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

So they look to a muse for energy inspiration. While Clay Christensen is unlikely to publish "The Innovator's Muse" anytime soon, the empirical fact is that innovative organizations are desperate for sources of design differentiation. Perhaps the newly-knighted Sir Jonathan Ive has one, too. Why not a muse?

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Innovation Fashion Christensen Creativity 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Clay Christensen writes, "Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life's strategy." But as Christensen observes, we often default to short-term tasks even when many of them may not connect to our bigger goals. The bad news is that you're lost." Why is that?

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Christensen McKinsey Short-term Goal 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Great managers know how to tap that superabundant resource, and they recognize that pooling creative energy usually accelerates progress. So this raises the question: How do we enable more people to get involved in solving problems? Every person is capable of creative thought and action. Many minds make lighter work.

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Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The energies, talent, and resources of the leading organizations in an established system always are absorbed in improving their best products, which are sold to address the most demanding applications in the industry. xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D., Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School.

Health Care 15

Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

My 2-year-old son, Harry, valiantly contributed a range of squiggles, which I suppose represented waves of karmic energy. Since I couldn’t tell if it was good energy or bad energy, I turned next to the submission from my soon-to-be-6-year-old daughter, Holly. She had drawn an arrow with flowers on it.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

I heard people from all over the world arguing that the US government needs to grab the bull by horns, insert itself much more aggressively in economic planning, and start directing American economic resources to "new growth industries" such as clean energy , high-tech manufacturing, or advanced healthcare solutions.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Could they unlock all the energy being held in check? More recently, Clayton Christensen has outlined how managers’ acquired habits in allocating capital are putting capitalism itself at risk. (Note, for example the findings by recent surveys that very few employees are engaged in their work, and even fewer passionate about it.)

Management 11

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). Essentially, he put lots of energy into catching drift before it caught Apple. Totally upended. Just how does drift happen? We can do the same in our personal and professional lives. Look around.

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Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., For example, the U.S.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Think of the famous idea from Clayton Christensen of trying to disrupt or cannibalize your own business before someone else does. Companies (and homes) that generate their own onsite energy will be able to literally weather storms better than competitors. Fast feedback and failure.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Consider a European energy company that decided to open an innovation outpost in Silicon Valley a number of years ago. It’s expensive, but you agree to pay an innovation premium because you appreciate that in innovation clusters the search for talent is fierce.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

One group wanted me to detail the essential habits of disruptive innovators (where I happily leveraged the great work on the innovator's DNA by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen). There is a mind-blowing innovation energy around the globe. A third wanted to "expand the minds of its regional leadership team."

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. If that potential isn’t realized, the money will quickly dry up.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Rather than, say, simply sticking solar panels on the roof of a house that has been designed with the assumption of cheap and abundant energy, an integrated experiment would design houses from scratch to optimize their energy efficiency, making the solar panels on the roof much more useful.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Don''t give preambles to the questions and don''t devote any time or energy to answering them. Questions alone might be clever, but as Jeff Dyer, Clayton Christensen, and I found in our research behind The Innovator''s DNA , they rarely produce positive impacts. Ask as many questions as you can. Go for at least 50, perhaps 75.

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Brainstorming Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. One book that I'm looking forward to reading next year on this topic is Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton Christensen's work on The Innovator's DNA.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years. If you know far more than the mentee, and the expertise he is looking for is in your sweet spot, very little energy may be required.

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Nuclear reactors melted down, disrupting the national grid, reversing energy policies as far away as Germany, and contaminating a part of Japan for generations to come. It wiped away whole towns, killing over 15,000 people and leaving almost 3,000 more missing and presumed dead.

Efficiency 9

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Why are some brands able to be at once both global and local — to successfully seize the energy of grassroots movements and at the same time leverage corporate assets on a massive scale — while others only come off as artificial and pandering? Saul eventually left government to focus on BIF full-time. The contrast is stark.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

No definition of specific areas where the company should focus its energy. The essence of Clayton Christensen’s famous Innovator’s Dilemma is that companies privilege investments to sustain today’s business over those that have the potential to create tomorrow’s business. And that was it. No tools or training.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

By loving TEDx, a volunteer army of people are saying they believe that smart ideas that get people to think more about their world is a cause worth putting energy into. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. When HBS professor Clayton Christensen introduced the concept of disruptive innovation in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma , it was a revelation. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. See More Videos > See More Videos > Disruptive innovation.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22