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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

First Friday Book Synopsis

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.

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A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care

Harvard Business Review

For me and many other physicians, reading " Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care " by Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy in the September-October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review was like having a light turned on. or a doctor's office. or a walk-in clinic in a drug store. or the patient's home.

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Using Data to Increase Patient Engagement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. health-care industry in action, one billing claim or specialist referral at a time. Slowly but surely, these same techniques are being brought to the B2B space, and to health care. Take my company, athenahealth. Insight Center.

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Precision Medicine Could Have a Major Impact on Healthcare Outcomes and Costs - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business Review

The transformation of health care continues at a rapid pace, bringing opportunities and challenges for health care providers to deliver improved clinical outcomes at lower costs. And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care.

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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

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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Building an Accountable Care Organization

Harvard Business Review

Suppose for a moment that you are an administrator in an organization that provides health care and your job is on the line for delivering both savings and improved care. Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen has taught us this is not possible — that an organization will not cannibalize itself.