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. Fortunately, for senior executives there was a solution.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The 12 square km Education City is home to a wide range of K12 and higher education facilities, including seven international campuses from institutions such as Northwestern, Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon universities, with HEC Paris then offering executive MBAs from its campus in West Bay.

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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. 1,304 103,000 79 6,016 Marshall Goldsmith Business, Leadership Internationally known Executive Coach, bestselling author of What Got You Here Won''t Get You There and MOJO! Author of @MeasureYourLife.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Add to this that more and more interfaces are standardized and subjected to competition (per Clay Christensen ) and we are seeing an emerging alphabet — components that can be assembled in endless combinations as manifestations of unique ideas. But again, the complex interactions require judgment, intuition, data, timing and experience.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

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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.

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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

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. Probably not.

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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. That will require executives of health care providers and the entire medical community to embrace, at scale, four pillars of care.

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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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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

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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

How businesses continue to develop and deploy information and communications technologies will profoundly affect whether prosperity is inclusive or exclusive. ” The situation creates huge responsibilities for politicians, educators, executives, and others to manage the transition and the hardships that may come with it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

My family and I have a bunch of Apple devices, a WiFi network built around an Apple Time Machine, and not enough technological savvy (or time) to figure out workarounds. So do Apple executives. In 2007, Christensen called the iPhone "a sustaining innovation relative to Nokia" and predicted that it would flop.

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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.

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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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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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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

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. This led to the HR VP brokering a meeting with the CEO and an invitation to make a formal presentation to the Executive Committee. Executing on Innovation.

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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. One of the articles reached millions of readers through one of the internet's most respected technology blogs. But the path of disruption is not.

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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. Network effects: The winner does not always take all. Complements are not substitutes.

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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. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology' How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management.

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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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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 wisdom of such a strategy has been discussed in business circles for years, most notably in the work of Harvard's Clayton Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period. “Things like that are constantly a surprise to them,” one non-physician executive observed. Consider pairing up with a co-CEO who brings a different perspective.

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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. 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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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. What role should senior executives play in innovation? Why is innovation so hard?

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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 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.”

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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. The technology was great. They executed on their plans well. The technology was remarkable and it could fit into your pocket. HP rise had been remarkable.

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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. This is easier said than done.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

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. After all, executives hire coaches; why shouldn't creative innovators budget time and resources for a muse or two? Why not a muse? Why not a muse?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. ” We do not execute a central mandate (e.g., Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever predicted the disruption of elite consulting firms. Our group welcomes the competition.

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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. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed.

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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. CWR's goal is also to find large-scale technologies and strategies for tackling climate change.

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