N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

Business Model 361

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. 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.

Mentor 14

Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. It always has.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics.

Management 8

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8