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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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. Bill George – He has taught leadership since 2004 and is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where.

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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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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

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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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. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants.

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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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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. DMS : Trust and vulnerability are keys to “Energy Management” Not to sound too 19th or 20th Century, but trusting is efficient… and effective. Energy Management raises the issue of perfection.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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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. If your knowledge-based industry hasn’t been disrupted yet, get ready. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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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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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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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management. Managers, of course, are among the great rule inventors and implementers of the world. What if managers changed their approaches and got that set of rules right? We are not the first to point out to economists that management makes a difference.

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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

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

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. Research suggests that eliminating unwarranted variations in medical care can reduce the cost of patient management by at least 35 percent.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

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. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. How HBR Changed the Way I Work. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

But the middle managers who contacted George to give a talk balked at his regular speaking fee, instead treating him like "a silicon chip supplier." While becoming a leader in an industry or geography might involve a dose of luck, it also involves significant skill, determination, and hard work. Just ask Kodak, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." His basic argument is that it is more effective to evaluate managers by looking at the situations they have been in than their track record of success. Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth.

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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

MARCH 19, 2012

For starters, the intellectual challenge of constantly jumping from industry to industry can be exhilarating. As one management consultant framed it, "Why would I ever work in one industry for the next 20 years when I can work in a new industry every other month?" The lure to stay general is strong.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock. World War II left the German and Japanese steel industries in ruins. But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

That’s not true of every industry, though. Beyond that, the chart mainly shows the already flogged-to-death contrast between rising service industries and declining manufacturing. The average hourly wage in management and technical consulting is $37.44; in legal services it’s $37.07. is almost 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As Clay Christensen and colleagues point out in the latest issue of HBR , the consulting industry is ripe for disruption. In many other cases, however, the shielding of consultants from the responsibility to achieve results is potentially dangerous both to the consultants and to the managers who hire them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Firing hundreds of employees, upsetting your core business’ distribution partners, writing off billions of dollars of investment — these things are difficult for managers to even contemplate, and with good reason. Professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

These experiences can be tremendously valuable, providing young workers the opportunity to build skills for their resumes and meet people who are working in their preferred industry. Katie, a tech industry executive cautions to “[never] say no to small opportunities because [they don’t] fit your idea of work.”

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

“If you’re the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you’re laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group,” Grazer writes in his book, A Curious Mind. In many cases, managers and top executives have risen through the ranks by providing fixes and solutions, not by asking questions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Almost none of their patents would be useful (the tire business was the second most research-intensive industry in the U.S And the Akron Ohio-based bias-ply tire manufacturing industry, which by 1920 had produced more millionaires than Silicon Valley has produced until just recently, essentially vanished. To produce radials, the U.S.

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