Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. Still, it enabled Medtronic to expand into the Chinese market.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

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.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things. Our survival depended upon it.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. This is perhaps the most important criterion, since it’s relatively easy for incumbents to use their market power to bar start-ups from established distribution systems.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. While developing expertise is the most certain way to reduce entrepreneurial risk, many other strategies exist: Process — Using the right processes to deal with market uncertainty (e.g.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

John Maynard Keynes very famously proposed that the actions of rational agents in a market were akin to a fictional newspaper contest , where entrants were asked to pick who, out of a set of six women, was most beautiful. The financial markets put pressure on you to generate the type of returns they’re looking for: quarterly results.

Finance 10

Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management. Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. Why the Lean Start Up Changes Everything.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The high salaries investment banks offer draw talented scientists and engineers to figure out ever more complex financial instruments that don’t advance any particular social purpose. Large-scale problems require large-scale solutions, and large companies have the capacity to make meaningful progress on these challenges.

Advertising 9

Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time. Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography.

Film 8

Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Thanks David.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

Innovation 22

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. And these investments do not even include those incurred in building, promoting, and marketing the new Kindle Fire product whose sales have yet to be counted at all. Which begs the question, should Amazon really be punished for this?

Christensen 12

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

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. But as she began to consider her future at the company, she realized that all of the people above her were white, male engineers or accountants.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. The right question is not whether its time to split HR, but rather why are leaders so much less sophisticated about talent than about financial capital?

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Its a precursor  probably the most important precursor  to Clayton Christensens later work on disruptive innovation. In it, Foster argues that technological discontinuities were enablingupstart attackers to push aside market-leading defenders far more frequently than was then commonly understood.

Technology 8

Technology Company Venture Capitalist Media 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. Information and authority flow in linked circles, with people taking on shifting roles as needed.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. They decided to pursue their doctorates, and offered their search engine to Yahoo for $1 million. Yahoo declined (as did others).

Succession 17

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Executives often get fooled by inspiring stories of engineers at companies like 3M or Google coming up with germs of ideas in the 15-20% of their time they allocate to side projects. Problems can range from entering new markets to addressing everyday concerns such as low employee engagement.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Some of the many cool things Jon Cropper has done includes helping MTV move into Asia, Latin America and South Africa, working with (the) Quincy Jones, and heading up Nissan North America’s youth and multicultural marketing (know the “Shift_expectations” ads?). His theme was Generosity feeds the Soul.

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In many ways, the slump in oil prices since 2014 have been a boon to the startup scene in Oslo as so many engineers have either voluntarily or otherwise chosen to deploy their talents in non-oil disciplines, with many choosing to create startups.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78