Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

You can adjust the system they work within meaning the environment, work itself, rewards and tasks , management , etc… By adjusting the system of work you will adjust the behaviors and hopefully increase motivation. The responses you gather are the system-that-drives motivation from the team. How can I stay motivated?

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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. Often innovative solutions can be found if you expand the scope of what you see as the system. With this quote from the book you see a great deal of insight.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

We also need to trust systems. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Instead, a mere three seconds after the earthquake struck, a sophisticated early warning system kicked in. Corporations should have early warning systems to detect emerging competitive threats that have long-term potential to affect their business. The government is often portrayed as an inhibitor to innovation, but that's not fair.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists. Some can, but many cannot.

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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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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. This innovation and integration is still a work in progress.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Professor Clayton M.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. It notes, "Sometimes long-term simplicity is achieved only through bursts of complexity to rework current systems." Music to any innovator's ears. focus only on streaming).

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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?

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care. 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. As Harvard Business School professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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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. A related possibility is that a majority of venture capitalists use flawed theories of startup success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. Disruption shouldn't be a term used to describe any successful innovation. Over the course of the past few weeks, two articles crossed my desk touching on this issue.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation. Regulation should facilitate it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

But innovation theory can provide a crystal ball; theory could have predicted iTunes' success and it's currently predicting Spotify's success. To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done. It's business model innovation.

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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. A related possibility is that a majority of venture capitalists use flawed theories of startup success.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

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

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. The idea is to create a new and separate division that meets competition while ensuring that new innovations are as minimally disruptive (in the old sense of the world) to the core business as possible. They are supply-side architectural innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

” By emphasizing solutions as the engine of growth, Beinhocker and Hanauer wanted to cast capitalism as a force for prosperity (as the system that churns out the most constant stream of superior ones). We’d like to add a wrinkle to Beinhocker and Hanauer’s argument. Imaginative problem-solving is part of human nature.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Understanding their disappointing performance is particularly important given that retail clinics are viewed as the prototypical example of how disruptive innovation can change the health care system for the better. Disruptive innovation Health Innovation' Ultimately, as long as the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

And, the misunderstood poem helps to highlight how innovation-seeking executives need to reframe the word risk. ” There can be no innovation without risk, as innovation necessarily has uncertain outcomes, some of which can be bad. Encouraging risk taking, therefore, can help to boost innovation. They don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Our calendars get out of sink with the solar system so we must periodically get our human calendars back on track with the celestial ones. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). Make your Innovator's DNA come alive. Totally upended.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. Such a dynamic is antithetical to effective innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. We have known for a long time that innovation is the name of the game now.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

A new business model may turn on designing a new product for an unmet need or on a process innovation. Introducing a better business model into an existing market is the definition of a disruptive innovation. That is it may be new in either end.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Even General Motors, which had a bird’s eye view of the Toyota Production System from its joint venture with Toyota at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock.

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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. On-the-ground insights can spark the “why “ and “what if “ questions that eventually lead to innovation. Communication Innovation Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

Ventresca, a professor at the Said Business School , prefers to think of entrepreneurs as system builders, creating enterprise by "marshaling, mobilizing, and connecting different worlds." Real acts of innovation are something more than acts of combination. I believe this obscures what is most interesting about the entrepreneur.

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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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