Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption and a co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors. Consider, for example, the journey of a solitary e-mail message. RedStamp was just honored by Entrepreneur Magazine as 1 of 100 Brilliant Companies.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Autonomous vehicles are an obvious example of such a scenario, with researchers from MIT providing an illustration of how this might unfold. For example, predicting how pedestrians will behave when walking amongst driverless cars, or the decisions that pilots will make in an emergency situation. Changing knowledge work.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

There are examples of companies throughout history and across every sector that have either failed to embrace disruptive business models, or have failed to maintain their once disruptive edge. .&# Don’t allow your enterprise to adopt an attitude of complacency, because the simple truth is that complacency kills companies.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 29, 2011

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). What is an example of a completed task or goal that was important to you as a person? Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. 0 = What is relevant to self.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. Would you share an example or two of people who have lived your principles and demonstrated them in terms of being an influencer and revolutionary? So…think like Peter Drucker. ‘Be

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

What you point out, where you really focused in on these markets, where I think one of the best examples is where the end result of a hackathon can end up just totally terminating your entire market, how you plan for strategy then. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. At IESE, for example, we are experimenting with splicing material developed for my MOOC into the traditional course on globalization that I also offer. The question should be, Can we do better?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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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. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The primary target of Lepore’s attack was Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, whose groundbreaking book, The Innovator’s Dilemma coined the term disruptive technology (later transformed into disruptive innovation ). However, Lepore does Christensen’s work a tremendous disservice.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. 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. One striking example: there's only one person Apple with responsibility for a profit and loss.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

In an age of awards overkill, it is tempting to see the ranking as just another example of hubris in the business world. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November.

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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. The case studies offered in both of the articles above are good examples of this — cell phone GPS apps and Uber. But the path of disruption is not.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

"What you can know is that the markets for disruptive innovations are unpredictable, and therefore your initial strategy for entering a market will be wrong," writes Christensen. For example: when I left Wall Street in 2005, I was writing a children's book and pitching a reality TV show about soccer in Latin America: neither transpired.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma. Perhaps the greatest example of a user innovation at Apple was the iPhone itself. Firms guided by embedded lead users cannot be disrupted in the Christensen sense.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For me and many other physicians, reading " Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care " by Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy in the September-October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review was like having a light turned on. That seemed like a losing strategy to most of my colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord. William Wrigley Jr., Set bold but achievable goals. Elicit conflict and adversity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Here's a concrete example: I often talk about how Xerox (along with all its printer-making peers) is helping customers print less. As the great guru on innovation Clayton Christensen has said, we base our thinking on "an assumption that the status quo in the business will maintain itself into the future. But the present status quo.is

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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. In financial terms these were small bets, with very low overhead.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. Here is the problem: none of the three disruptors I have outlined here are traditional Christensen-style innovations. As Ford CEO, Mark Fields, explained to The Verge : “Our approach is to first disrupt ourselves.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done. For example, every day I hire a Coke to be a wake-me-up mid-afternoon break in my workday. But this is the nature of what Professor Christensen calls low-end disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

But at the Summit, Xerox execs gave an example from their corporate backyard. So instead of paying to dump garbage, customers may get paid for valuable material, which adds up (GM, for example, has made $2.5 Recycling streams can generate income for customers. billion on recycling over the last five years).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. And incorrect analysis often falls into well-understood categories — the overestimation in M&A synergies, for example. The recent influx of capital into low-cost 3D printing is a good example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. A great example of how being engaged and talking makes us smarter is this observation from Kelley Nelsen in a comment left on a previous post, " Can Nice Girls Negotiate? " When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job. For example, when I invest, I hire the investment to do the functional job of making money. My business partner Matt Christensen had invested with Mr. Kim previously -- and made money.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Lewis, for example, offers up the simplest of definitions — “All it really meant was how you planned to make money” — to make a simple point about the dot.com bubble, obvious now, but fairly prescient when he was writing at its height, in the fall of 1999. .” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

For example, an executive in his mid-thirties and in a career transition began by asking "How can I make a bucket of money?" Several years ago Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma ) and colleagues at Innosight coined the phrase "jobs-to-be-done" as part of a methodology they use to build new billion dollar businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Some, for example, are inspired by Thomas Piketty, who seems to have singlehandedly set a new agenda for economics research. Of course the bounty produced by economic growth should be broadly shared. But the devil is in the details, and when people advocate for inclusive growth they don’t always have the same things in mind.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Our research shows that these are not isolated examples. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note, for example, the spirited defense by Paul Polman of Unilever of his long-term, sustainable business philosophy in the wake of a takeover attempt. Like any social movement, this one has started with many people starting small fires. Look around and you will see them: Individual CEOs and their boards deliberately deciding to take a stand.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

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. Tesla is also not comparable to Netflix, another frequently-cited example of a disruptive innovator.

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