Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Teams can be entrepreneurial, but they first need to function effectively as a team.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

And finally, business model innovation is getting the recognition it deserves. That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. For many, this is frightening.

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Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a coexistent relationship that allows for considerable data to be generated that supporters believe drives productivity and allows organizations to find the optimum configuration of their facilities. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 ” Modified behavior. .”

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 85

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. When we buy a product, we essentially “hire” it to help us do a job. Often innovative solutions can be found if you expand the scope of what you see as the system.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. Likewise, a review of theoretical and quantitative studies showed that teams are often more creative when they have fewer rather than more resources (for example, time, money, and people).

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2020

Understanding these pieces is critical for strategy teams, product development units, and organizational leaders.

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Christensen Article Strategy Productivity 8

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

As we let ourselves be vulnerable, we also leave ourselves more open to new ideas, new ways of thinking which leads to empathy and innovation. As we let ourselves be vulnerable, we also leave ourselves more open to new ideas, new ways of thinking which leads to empathy and innovation. Photo: Stephanie Alvarez Ewens CS : Absolutely.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. But what's most interesting to me isn't that The Innovator's Dilemma was on that list. That was to let profitability outweigh passion: "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products.

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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Doctors understand what other doctors will value in a new product; lawyers know what other lawyers need. In fact, my colleagues and I have found that innovation thrives when expert users make up about 40% of an invention team. Why do firms led by doctors tend to lag behind in innovation? Food and Drug Administration).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. global information solutions company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. But anyone with near-term innovation targets with nine (or six or even four) digits in them should ensure they are familiar with the concept of "planning fallacy.". How about new product introductions?

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Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. The moment when someone is choosing, purchasing, or using a product can be a great vehicle for learning.

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Innovation Licensing Christensen Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." But how do you hire innovators ? What exactly are you looking for , and more importantly, how do you identify the ability to innovate ?

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Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Successful firms have an established customer base, most of whom are satisfied with the products they are purchasing.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A result that is exacerbated by the simultaneous decrease in the cost of innovation and the rise of new approaches, like Y Combinator's systematic incubation factory, Kickstarter's crowd-funding platform, and super angels like Ron Conway. For example, its team found the perceived wisdom that failure is beneficial isn't backed by data.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

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. Trap 1: Replicating What You Did Before.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A result that is exacerbated by the simultaneous decrease in the cost of innovation and the rise of new approaches, like Y Combinator's systematic incubation factory, Kickstarter's crowd-funding platform, and super angels like Ron Conway. For example, its team found the perceived wisdom that failure is beneficial isn't backed by data.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

A company makes the strategic decision to create a group dedicated to the creation of innovative growth businesses. All the techniques and mental tricks executives develop over time to run established businesses can be completely counter to what is needed to successfully innovate. Send the team to school. It starts innocently.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”. Communication Innovation Organizational culture'

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team. Think of yourself as a product. It’s a worthwhile exercise to identify the thinking style of everyone on your team. What Is Disruptive Innovation? Clay Christensen clarifies his theory. Why Deloitte is getting rid of 360 feedback and the annual review.

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Article Christensen Disruptive Innovation Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Going forward, we’ll have to work harder for any gains in productivity and prosperity, and they will come slower. The pace of innovation is still fast, they say, and we can still expect plenty of technological breakthroughs capable of producing extremely high returns. Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management.

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance.

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Creativity Consultative CEO System 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. How did it do this?

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Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

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.” The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). Christensen. By Jim Collins. By Patrick M.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation. If anyone knows how to succeed in intrapreneurship, it''s George. three times.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. 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. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

But rhyming is different from predicting and the analysts' forecasts remain vulnerable to exogenous shocks and the disruptive technologies described so well in Clayton Christensen's work, The Innovator's Dilemma. When it pounces, the company floods the sector with cash, moving into very high volume production as fast as possible.".

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Strategy Christensen Technology Long-term 9

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. The team began by identifying 57 companies that have made substantial progress toward transformation.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. How many companies have figured out how to shift from supply chain management to integrating customer feedback directly into their product design, distribution, and delivery? How does this work?

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