Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

As the co-founder of a boutique investment firm with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson came to realize that the frameworks of disruption not only apply to innovation and investing, but to individuals. If you’ve ever wondered how to bridge the diversity gaps in your mentoring relationships, this webinar is for you!

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Four years ago Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted that online education would take off slowly and then hit everyone by surprise: the S-curve effect. And indeed, while it initially grew slowly, online education has exploded over the past several years. But Khan goes beyond the computer and customized feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome. As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. It always has.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First, the education market overall clearly fits Clayton Christensen's disruption theory : the seemingly inferior (but less costly) online education experience is coming from below and gradually encroaching on the for-now-superior-but-fat-and-happy classroom world. It too will disrupt; it's just lagging the rest.

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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.

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