N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. I do agree with your basic premise though.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. 799 143,000 179 Jeremie Kubecik Leadership Co-Founder of GiANT, speaker,entrepreneur and Bestselling author of Leadership is Dead. Author of @MeasureYourLife. 3 amazing kids and one great wife!

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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. Even with a technological head start, wining the fight for incumbents’ most profitable customers is nearly impossible. Oculus, of course, was wildly successful.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

This week, over 10,000 entrepreneurs and investors will descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive , hoping to be or to find the next big thing in technology. Some entrepreneurs will find funding, some will not. The emotional aspect may involve my liking the entrepreneur; perhaps he/she is my alter ego.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. The rest, of course, is history. ” I agree.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

To be sure, entrepreneurs in highly specialized and technical industries need the knowledge that only users (doctors, lawyers, engineers, and the like) can provide. Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2010

But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In October, I described how two entrepreneurs told us about the business they had built — featuring a fully functional website and lead customers — for less than $10,000.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. During this time, as I volunteered in public affairs for my church, I became acquainted with Professor Christensen. Time to disrupt myself. STOP IT.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. This is the transformational and dramatic effect of a superior technology entering an industry. This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based based bias-ply tire manufacturers (Goodyear, Firestone, Uniroyal, B.F.

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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. According to the research on successful entrepreneurs, their single most important trait is the ability to persuade. If you say we should, let’s do it. Innovation'

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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. American tech entrepreneurs earned some bad press this year, but in HBR, they proved why more established firms should not stop watching them closely.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. They worked with little coordination and control from HQ.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Meanwhile, the halls were filled with hundreds of investors and hundreds more entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions. Professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Yves Saint Laurent and Pablo Picasso — brilliant entrepreneurs as well as celebrated artistes — claimed inspiration from muses.So, apparently, did Steve Jobs. Perhaps the newly-knighted Sir Jonathan Ive has one, too. Creative dynamos have always sought the frisson of the divine revelatory spark. Why not a muse?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

A quick background on the players: the Summit was thrown by a new organization dedicated to green business leadership, with events aided mightily by friend and colleague, the uber-connected Aimee Christensen. The force behind the Awards was originally Sunil Paul, a clean tech investor and entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Organizations such as Y Combinator and TechStars have become magnets for some of the most talented US entrepreneurs by providing expert guidance with limited funds.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. While digital technology can empower social initiatives, they are essentially human endeavors. These days, it’s pretty easy to interact with consumers directly. Yet that’s exactly the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. Andreessen: I think a lot of it is based on the underlying technology change. The way I think about it is — at least in the world that I work in, sort of tech and Internet media — bundles emerge as a consequence of the current technology. But new bundles keep appearing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But as I kept thinking about the less obvious harm technology could do, the one possibility that really got me worried was the unstoppable rise of what I will call the “advertising/narcissism complex.”. The world suffers from big problems: How can we feed the 10 billion people who will inhabit the Earth in 2050? What if we thought bigger?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out. What about a novel technology partnership? Develop a shared innovation philosophy. Could it need a new sales channel?

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