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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

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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Is Tesla Really a Disruptor? (And Why the Answer Matters)

Harvard Business Review

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. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Most disruptions have three enablers: a simplifying technology, a business model innovation, and a disruptive value network. The technological enabler transforms a technological problem from something that requires deep training, intuition, and iteration to resolve, into a problem that can be addressed in a predictable, rules-based way.

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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Harvard Business Review

Xerox advises companies on how to save money on document handling, and holds a sizable 48 percent market share in the broadly defined, and surprisingly large, $7.78 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.

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

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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Summer of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The first experience involved extensive field visits to India and China as part of work with a multinational company looking to boost growth in those markets. Our team collectively spent about 100 days across the two markets, visiting urban areas, rural areas, homes, retail locations, hospitals, and more.