Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. SAP Business Innovation, and Huffington Post for his leadership, customer experience, and social media influence. Would you like to meet my team?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2020

In this repeat episode, we honor the legacy of HBS professor Clayton Christensen, who passed away on January 23, 2020. The legendary management thinker was best known for his influential theory of “disruptive innovation,” which inspired a generation of executives and entrepreneurs.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). 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. 1 = What is relevant to people on the team. 1: Explain & explore the skill sets and why each person was chosen to be on this team.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

And finally, business model innovation is getting the recognition it deserves. That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. So how do we do this?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. “They saved $999,000 and ate the clams for dinner,” the executive told me. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Soon most of us will be exchanging holiday gifts and perhaps you’ll be asked what you would like to receive. Why not suggest some business books? In my opinion, whether as a gift from someone else or one you give yourself, these ten are among the essentials, listed in title alpha order: Beyond Performance: How [.].

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive innovation is a parsimonious theory that explains many business failures.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. Author of @MeasureYourLife. Father of 3 kids. Husband of 1 wife. Leadership Expert.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome. As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. It always has.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

As we let ourselves be vulnerable, we also leave ourselves more open to new ideas, new ways of thinking which leads to empathy and innovation. As we let ourselves be vulnerable, we also leave ourselves more open to new ideas, new ways of thinking which leads to empathy and innovation. Photo: Stephanie Alvarez Ewens CS : Absolutely.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps. You simply cannot do that with 4G or with Wi-Fi.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Have you mastered the five skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers? Through their research on the world’s best innovators—including leaders at Amazon, Apple, Google, Skype, and Virgin Group—these authors have identified five key skills that differentiate great innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists. Some can, but many cannot.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. Academics offer up at least three answers: Clayton Christensen asserts that a single organization can't house two competing systems; companies seeking to drive disruptive growth therefore need to create spinoff organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. But what's most interesting to me isn't that The Innovator's Dilemma was on that list. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

So is iTunes Radio an innovation? Sounds great, I guess, and probably even innovative. The subject of whether Apple is still innovative has become an extremely touchy one over the past year. So do Apple executives. Except for a few dark years in the mid-1990s, Apple has always been very good at sustaining innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

About every six months an article appears arguing that innovation is an overused term, with corporate fatigue auguring a "back to basics" approach focused on less sexy but important tasks of execution, strategy, and so on. The Little Black Book of Innovation offers a simple, five-word definition: "Something different that has impact."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." But how do you hire innovators ? What exactly are you looking for , and more importantly, how do you identify the ability to innovate ?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Disruptive innovators ask the right questions, observe the world like anthropologists, network for novel ideas, and experiment to make things work. For a more detailed look at these skills, see The Innovator's DNA ). Applying the skills disruptive innovators use to your job search can help you unearth more, and better, opportunities.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Raynor, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP, provides consulting services to senior executives in the world’s leading corporations across a wide range of industries. In his client projects and research, Michael explores the challenges of corporate strategy, innovation and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Does your business — should your innovators — have a muse? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Then Burda and Sulzberger leave the stage and are replaced by a panel featuring a couple of media executives plus Google's Nikesh Arora (who I guess is a media executive too), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist (and Facebook investor) Jim Breyer. It's media disintermediation at work!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. These observations weren't closely connected with my client work, but they did help to provide local context and might ultimately spur thoughts about opportunities for innovation. Make a regular habit of just standing and watching. You may be surprised by what you see.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. global information solutions company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In fact, my colleagues and I have found that innovation thrives when expert users make up about 40% of an invention team. Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period. Food and Drug Administration).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The executive team of a consumer healthcare company had concluded that the rise of new competitors meant the company needed to up its innovation game. The company had spent the past two decades focused on implementing Six Sigma processes across the enterprise and it was primed to execute on the best and smartest ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. Music to any innovator's ears. Netflix's announcement that it is splitting off its DVD-by-mail business from its streaming business is just such an experiment. It's hard to know if this document reflects reality.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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