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

You can adjust the system they work within meaning the environment, work itself, rewards and tasks , management , etc… By adjusting the system of work you will adjust the behaviors and hopefully increase motivation. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). What challenges does the team leaders manager have? What do you think?

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Author of @MeasureYourLife. Father of 3 kids.

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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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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. 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. Energy Management raises the issue of perfection.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. Middle managers with limited resources and set evaluation metrics will simply operate in a predictable fashion. It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome.

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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

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

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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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

I’m tired of all the “Woe is America” stuff – we’ve lost our innovation edge, we’re stagnating, etc. What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. He is a physician, educator, researcher, public advocate, innovator and very human.

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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

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

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 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Austin, Richard L. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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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

MAY 12, 2011

Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. The shop's small retail footprint means there is no "back of the store" and certainly no sophisticated inventory management software. Discovery-driven executives produce uncommon business ideas by scrutinizing common phenomena, particularly the behavior of potential customers," they wrote.

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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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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

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

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

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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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

JANUARY 8, 2015

But it’s familiar territory to innovators, who’ve spent decades wrestling with the problem of how to manage uncertainty when there is little to guide them in getting their new offering to a new audience or market. Trap 1: Replicating What You Did Before.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. By Robert Kaplan.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

And, the misunderstood poem helps to highlight how innovation-seeking executives need to reframe the word risk. Similarly, when the word risk comes out of an executive’s mouth, it’s usually accompanied by one of four mistakes: Assuming that taking action is the biggest risk. They don’t.

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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 other article reached executives around the globe through publication in the HBR's print magazine. Simply put, the argument for "high-end" disruption is a bad one.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

So how about executive education programs, those run by companies in-house and at business schools? Second, to fully appreciate the forces at work in executive education, we need to complement this view with another body of theory from knowledge management. All executive education that is of this form will clearly move online.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. Research suggests that eliminating unwarranted variations in medical care can reduce the cost of patient management by at least 35 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives. Many minds make lighter work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Nevertheless, we steadfastly supported the venture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative. Good managers are able to get people to speak honestly and use disagreements to reach more-considered decisions. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

As part of the fast-growing "managed print services" sector, the company shows organizations how to reduce the number of printers they use. To me it's a clear story of serving customers better, but recently an executive at one company I was working with asked me, "Doesn't pursuing those green goals reduce Xerox's profits and eliminate jobs?".

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