Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. He was a powerful executive because he understood how organizations really operate and could harness this knowledge. He had a high level of self-esteem, of course. He was confident in his abilities.

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Christensen Incentives Price Course 8

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. DMS : Trust and vulnerability are keys to “Energy Management” Not to sound too 19th or 20th Century, but trusting is efficient… and effective. Energy Management raises the issue of perfection.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

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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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

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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Education Tacit Knowledge Execution Christensen 8

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.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

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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Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. Or maybe modern information technology just keeps getting cheaper. Economy Information & technology Internet' ” Got that?

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GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. The gap between strategy and the execution of that strategy is often referred to as “ strategic dissonance.” The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

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. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. More >>.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Yahoo's shareholders should be waiting to rejoice until the new chief executive is announced. Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." Boards tend to look at candidates for executive positions and hire them based on past success in generating shareholder return.

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Christensen Price CEO Media 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

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. One of the articles reached millions of readers through one of the internet's most respected technology blogs. The pace of disruption is changing.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. A second misconception about digital disruption is that new technology will inevitably substitute old technology, rendering it obsolete. Consider the management consulting industry. Complements are not substitutes.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

And as Clayton Christensen described in The Innovator’s Dilemma , it can be very difficult for management teams and their organizations to acknowledge that the paradigm around them has changed, and instead of responding in an adaptive manner, too many organizations redouble their investments in legacy business models or technologies.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox , Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. billion "managed print services" (MPS) industry ( according to research firm IDC ).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable. Executives will always look for ways to achieve meaningful growth and engage in strategic renewal.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

You see, while creativity is a clearly a valuable asset, unbridled creativity where random, disparate ideas abound outside of a sound decisioning and execution framework will create distraction and chaos much more often than they will lead to innovation. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., Design and execute "high return on investment" experiments to address critical unknowns. Most organizations are designed to execute, not to innovate. How should I form and manage innovation teams? How do you define innovation?

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Fortunately, the organizations that took the effort to truly understand the value of their data were able to execute appropriately. Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. Sometimes that makes sense.

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Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Firing hundreds of employees, upsetting your core business’ distribution partners, writing off billions of dollars of investment — these things are difficult for managers to even contemplate, and with good reason. Professor Clayton M.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. Their ideas made sense.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Namely, George stresses the importance of: An executive mandate; A creative structure; and. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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.”. How much less risky does it feel to embattled executives charged with innovating to instead follow along with the prevailing trends?

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. Yet these executives also had an outsider role where they worked on an emerging growth business or consciously explored external opportunities, giving them critical distance from the core.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business models, the questions they face are questions of unprecedented uncertainty, where past experience may be no help. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The first is from a Google executive; the second, from an exec at Cisco. But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. "There's no way we could ever be this collaborative.".

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

In Clay Christensen''s words, customers "hire" products or other solutions because they have a specific job to fulfil, not because they belong to a certain segment. This type of of segmentation is more important than ever as technologically empowered customers have more choice and the ability to craft their own solutions.

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Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., For example, the U.S. as a whole has committed to.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 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. She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. Fortunately, disruptive innovation does not have to.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Hence, when a new potential stream of revenue presents itself, the company’s management feels it cannot afford to just leave it. Yet Capitec’s management was thinking ahead. Capitec’s management realized the company had moved on and that those branches needed closing. Will Capitec’s success last forever?

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8