Christensen Goal Operations Productivity 
Strategy Driven
JUNE 29, 2016
Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. Resistance from the Supplier. Resistance from the Customer.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 20, 2012
The question is understandable, but unfortunately it's based on deep misconceptions about how businesses need to operate in a world of constant change. As the great guru on innovation Clayton Christensen has said, we base our thinking on "an assumption that the status quo in the business will maintain itself into the future.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 23, 2011
In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. For the last century, America has operated on the world's technological frontier. That was down from 9.7%
Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2014
Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Operations Organizational culture'
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy .
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2013
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. This is where a startup''s lack of profitable operations would have worked to their advantage.
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