Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. Similarly, CK Prahalad’s work on the bottom of the pyramid from the beginning of this century is still hugely influential.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

Once you accept that truism, it becomes more a case of knowing where to look to spot trends as they enter the horizon.For incumbents, they can often get suckered into a narrow horizon that’s defined by their particular industry, and so miss the trends emerging in adjacent fields that will eventually disrupt them.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Jeff Dyer’s previous book The Innovator’s DNA, co-authored with by Clayton Christensen and Hal Gregersen, is a bestseller, has already been published in more than 13 languages, and won the 2011 Innovation Book of the Year Award from Chartered Management Institute.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. For these people, the key is to be on top of the trends affecting their industry that may result in a change in strategic direction for their organization.

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Innovation Technology Operations CIO 100

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

billion and is estimated to be worth $48 billion by 2026, with the Covid pandemic driving growth, especially in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, but also in sectors such as automotive and defense. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 100

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. He speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work. Would you like to meet my team?

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

This week marks the release of Clayton Christensen's highly-anticipated book, How Will You Measure Your Life (with co-authors James Allworth and Karen Dillon). The book expands on Christensen's McKinsey-award-winning HBR article , drawing life lessons from the models that form the basis of his business-oriented writing. Persistence.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Industries are being upended. Why do many businesses seem frozen even though the constant changes hitting industries require action? Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. Economic Disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry.

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Tony Mayo

JULY 26, 2010

Christensen titled, “ How Will You Measure Your Life? &# Along with plenty of great advice for new graduates he shared some keen insights on executive coaching. I’ll describe how the process in the model worked its way through an industry quite different from their own. Instead, I run the question aloud through one of my models.

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Executive Coaching Execution Mayo Strategy 113

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

His organization, The Business Innovation Factory (BIF), is a vehicle for sharing real life stories about business models that have transformed industries and lives. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them.

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Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

New technology is so much fun that it can be easy to forget that new business models are what drive industries forward, and that old technology can still be valuable as long as it is paired with a smart strategy. New-market disruptions go much further than incorporating non-consumers into an industry.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

CS : The Industrial Revolution was based on achieving efficiency by scale through replication – a frozen goal in a static context. We have to challenge the industrial culture in our work places to enable people to have better interactions. It’s usually messy… and increasingly effective.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. Really, we couldn’t find any industry where this phenomenon wasn’t happening. Paul and I call that the inevitable truth of your industry. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. You know it’s going to happen.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The HBS sage and McKinsey head discuss how to stay on top in a rapidly changing industry. For more, see the article Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption. Download this podcast. Consulting Strategy'

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Christensen McKinsey Download Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Clayton Christensen , Harvard Business School Professor, explains how to approach innovation creatively by studying the problem you are trying to solve and how it was resolved by other industries. For more, see the article Surviving Disruption.

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Innovation Christensen Creativity Industry 16

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 16, 2012

David Marquet The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. Morris Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China [.].

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Blog Innovation Review Industry 95

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Strategists need to understand how tomorrow's industry could be structured. The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. When overshooting begins to set in, industries can change rapidly. How active are startups at the industry's edge? Probably not.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” Christensen, Raynor, and McDonald argue that Uber is not disruptive because it offers neither a low-end service, nor a new market. Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. 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.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Raynor, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP, provides consulting services to senior executives in the world’s leading corporations across a wide range of industries. In his client projects and research, Michael explores the challenges of corporate strategy, innovation and growth.

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Case Study Consultative Innovation Project 75

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. Despite the tidal wave of medical knowledge and digital capabilities, widespread unwarranted variations in clinical practice drive higher costs and result in poorer quality.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. Clay Christensen once used to think so: If anyone can beat the odds against being disrupted, it is our remarkably capable and committed colleagues in higher education.. But I dont have to.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. During this time, as I volunteered in public affairs for my church, I became acquainted with Professor Christensen. Time to disrupt myself. STOP IT.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to provide that only people with a lot of skill and a lot of money could participate. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation. Regulation should facilitate it.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change. Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years. It's media disintermediation at work!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

And it could even be thought of as fitting; iTunes accomplished the exact same thing during its early-2000s attack on the bricks-and-mortar retail music industry. Apple set the stage to decimate Tower Records and Sam Goody before either had a clue their industry was about to revolt.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Simon McGill/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

I heard people from all over the world arguing that the US government needs to grab the bull by horns, insert itself much more aggressively in economic planning, and start directing American economic resources to "new growth industries" such as clean energy , high-tech manufacturing, or advanced healthcare solutions.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

“Digital is coming and it’s coming fast”; “No industry sector is immune to disruption”; “One thing is certain about digital transformation: It will be a big change for your entire organization”; “Digital will disrupt your industry.” Consider the management consulting industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. Which is why the auto industry’s reaction to Tesla’s announcement on March 31 of its Model 3 is so strange. .” This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook.

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