Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

It has become fashionable in some places to mock management. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. Second, management matters. Managers are the fall guys, the scapegoats for organizational excesses, failures and inefficiencies.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The first story relates to plain old-fashioned competition. 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. We debated two possible stories behind some of the report's statistics.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

For fashion houses and the arts, having a muse teeters on cliché. 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. Creative dynamos have always sought the frisson of the divine revelatory spark.

Innovation 14

Innovation Fashion Christensen Creativity 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

The guest who wears the Brioni likely sees themself as part of the world of fashion, and their shirt as an investment rather than a consumable. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized. In addition, fashion has become a larger part of our social media outreach.

Hotels 8

Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

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. Even if Spotify competes in a similar fashion, that doesn't mean it's better than iTunes. But this is the nature of what Professor Christensen calls low-end disruption.

Christensen 16

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. When we meet with prospective investors, I don't speak much, and for good reason. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. But here's the rub. To get women talking, here are three suggestions: 1) Invert the listen/talk ratio.

Christensen 15

Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen explains how incumbents actually pay a high price for actually doing a great job and constantly improving their technological offerings and creating overserved consumers. Of course, every innovator knows that new technology doesn’t always translate into profits.

Technology 8

Technology Industry Film Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Exit from a platform usually requires customers to leave in a coordinated fashion. By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time.

Film 8

Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

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. Firms naturally preserve their margins and satisfy their existing customers, steering away from disruptive opportunities.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. So, naturally, watching their profit margin drop precipitously as customers flock to these other retail centers, Best Buy is trying to figure out a way to compete.

Price 8

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 8

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. Setting the job done framework as a basis for customer segmentation allows us to use all the relevant data for customers in a meaningful and structured fashion.

Ramaswamy 8

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article. Among the findings: Age isn’t a barrier to digital engagement.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Metrics 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. I do agree with your basic premise though.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For over a decade now, we’ve been studying how the best innovators manage uncertainty, and in the course of our research we’ve seen three traps strategists fall prey to in fashioning digital business models, which they could avoid if they approached digital business modeling as an exercise in innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. He joined the creativity applications vendor in 1997, and got the CEO job a decade later largely because he was able to articulate a vision for pursuing digital marketing services as the new growth path. Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Strategy Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Alternatively, they attempt to innovate in a lean fashion, but they are slowed immensely by numerous requests for budget, little tolerance for failure, and a general disregard for "experimentation.". This is where a startup''s lack of profitable operations would have worked to their advantage. Develop a shared innovation philosophy.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Christensen. Did she want to take her one-of-a-kind fashion accessory business to the next level? Find people who are doing what you think you want to do and ask them lots of questions. Listen carefully and critically , so that you don’t just hear what you want to hear. Further Reading. How Will You Measure Your Life?

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8