N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

As the beach-read season comes to a close, check out these new and forthcoming books from HBR Press: How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals: Simple, Effective, Done Right. Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Here's a concrete example: I often talk about how Xerox (along with all its printer-making peers) is helping customers print less. As part of the fast-growing "managed print services" sector, the company shows organizations how to reduce the number of printers they use. But the present status quo.is

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Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Unfortunately, most of us don’t know how to make the job decisions that lead to satisfaction. ” As a result, we often pick jobs for the wrong reasons, says Karen Dillon, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life. For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer.

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Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. ’ It also answers the fundamental questions every manager must ask: How do we make money in this business? What is the underlying economic logic that explains how we can deliver value to customers at an appropriate cost?”

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. 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 9

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 short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. billion "managed print services" (MPS) industry ( according to research firm IDC ).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Still another is moving the older equipment to less-demanding applications or to plants in emerging markets.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

If it’s the former, that question you raised will be carefully considered and may trigger ongoing discussion — and possibly action — by the company’s managers and leaders. Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Because it has shown up in bits and pieces, via freemium models, crowdsourcing, online communities, virtual workforces, social networks, and so on, it is easy to miss how much the overall context has changed for the way value is created. How does this work? Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. And so, even with the price premium, Michelin was the only company that had figured out how to produce radial tires profitably at scale. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. In the late 1960s, Michelin introduced the radial tire into the U.S.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. As an analogy, think of sales and marketing and the rise of CRM. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it. Once the book had been written, I had to market it. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. In response, I usually tell the following story.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a darker view of the future than I had ever hoped my son would have, and it certainly got me thinking about how to make the negative case during the debate. Even more radical, what if investors demanded that companies report how much they are investing in innovation and the risk-adjusted value of their innovation portfolio?

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

labor market since the Great Depression, we learned Friday that 203,000 new jobs were created in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 7%. The average hourly wage in management and technical consulting is $37.44; in legal services it’s $37.07. How to Use Psychometric Testing in Hiring. An HBR Insight Center.

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Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But it’s familiar territory to innovators, who’ve spent decades wrestling with the problem of how to manage uncertainty when there is little to guide them in getting their new offering to a new audience or market. It’s uncomfortable terrain for many strategists. Trap 2: Build It and They Will Come.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

Now I've signed up for Google+, which means I now have yet another social media platform to manage. Moesta, the " milkshake guy " referred to by Clayton Christensen, examines the forces that drive people to purchase new products and services. My husband has already nicknamed me "Ladybird Johnson" because I like to tweet.

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Media Christensen Learning-by-Doing Blog 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

If anyone knows how to succeed in intrapreneurship, it''s George. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO.

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