Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

For instance, a recent study of 100 product development teams found that two common disruptors of team harmony, namely diversity and task uncertainty, were positively associated with creative performance. Set bold but achievable goals. You and Your Team Series. Being happy with the status quo is a sure way to escape creativity.

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. By Dick Grote. and Are Ready to Do It Again. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

She understands that her business has a purpose bigger than product, and that she is in pursuit of something more than just making money. Clay Christensen writes, "Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life's strategy." Are you multi-tasking your way to lower productivity?

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Christensen McKinsey Short-term Goal 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

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?". The shift helps customers reduce their environmental impacts and costs by cutting back on paper, energy, and waste.

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Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In Mindset , psychologist Carol Dweck writes: "it isn't just our abilities and talent that bring our success — but whether we approach our goals with a fixed or growth mindset." Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

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. That was down from 9.7% in the previous quarter and from its blistering 11.9% pace in the first quarter of 2010.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. And is it possible to encourage the “right kind” of questions — the ones most likely to lead to productive results?

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James. create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g.,

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Innovation Govindarajan Business Model Disruptive Innovation 16

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 .

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Career Company IPO Engineering 8

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. Optimization therefore made a lot of sense.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L McGregor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years. Relevance = The distance between the mentor's expertise and the mentee's goal.

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

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. They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. But by the mid-1990s, the challenges mounted. A billion dollars kind of became a mantra.".

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

How many companies have figured out how to shift from supply chain management to integrating customer feedback directly into their product design, distribution, and delivery? The social object that unites people isn't a company or a product; the social object that most unites people is a shared value or purpose.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

And these options improve employee engagement and productivity.” According to Kathleen Christensen, Program Director at the Alfred P. They want flexible start and ending times and telecommuting for 1-2 days per week. A second thing managers can do to stem the tide of dissatisfaction with work-life options for U.S.

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Survey Christensen Globalization Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

I wanted to feel like good parent by helping my children understand the power of saving toward goals. But without good options for doing that, I ended up doing nothing – what Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen calls “non consumption.” That shift made all the difference.

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Productivity Products Christensen Power 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations. Patient capital.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

That's essential to tweaking products and marketing campaigns — or overhauling them when necessary. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal. Orders go from the retailer to overseas vendors that manufacture products. Create a shared purpose and an end-to-end process map.

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Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Holacracy was supposed to revitalize the online shoe store’s culture and its reputation as a fun place to work, but the ever-expanding circles of responsibility that have emerged within the company and the resultant endless meetings are becoming a drain on productivity. Misconception 2: The goal justifies any means.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

So the goal should not be greater efficiency, but rather efficiency where it makes sense. An over-focus on efficiency can also make it more difficult to cope with gradual change.Eliminating errors by finding an optimal way of solving a problem, and then ruthlessly adhering to it, is at the root of quality control and improved productivity.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In a collaboration to determine just how disruptive leaders find these compelling questions, Professor Clayton Christensen and I conducted nearly 40 interviews with renowned global leaders. Before the question switched, for example, Intuit had QuickBooks Online customers in only five countries. Creating a Question-Centric Culture.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

A number of scholars at Harvard Business School have gotten in on the act, studying how crowds solve problems in new product development, scientific breakthroughs, and even trying to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. Set norms for contributions early.

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Christensen Open-book Software Innovation 8