Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

That was the question I was wrestling with earlier this week when a multi-billion dollar Asian company asked for insight into the trends that could transform a core part of its business. Each external expert was asked to prepare a few thoughts about their perspective on the most critical transformational trends. Apple with iTunes, $0.99

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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

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

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Harvard Professor and Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen alerted the world to the pattern of disruptive change almost two decades ago. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. Today's leaders have no excuse.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Disruptive innovators ask the right questions, observe the world like anthropologists, network for novel ideas, and experiment to make things work. For a more detailed look at these skills, see The Innovator's DNA ). Applying the skills disruptive innovators use to your job search can help you unearth more, and better, opportunities.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

One group wanted me to detail the essential habits of disruptive innovators (where I happily leveraged the great work on the innovator's DNA by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen). Another wanted to discuss how to identify transformational trends (which allowed me to dust off Seeing What's Next ).

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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

MARCH 20, 2012

In short, if your company doesn't implement green, customer-friendly solutions, someone else will, and you'll be cannibalized from the outside rather than proactively innovating from within. But the reality is that any company's competitive position is always eroding: the status quo is on a downward trend.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” This was innovation all right – an innovation-induced wasteland. The picture surprised me. The thought gives me chills.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

These dynamics make it hard for teams to recognize or to be fully cognizant of new disruptive challenges, while also stifling the creative innovation that is necessary to proactively confront such challenges. Our team’s predictions for key trends, results, or performance are wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Yes, Warren Buffett has recently bucked the trend with his purchase of the Media General chain. Dealing with disruptive innovation is difficult at any time, in any industry. This may be one business where the only real Innovator's Solution was to get out a decade ago. But I doubt he's reversed it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In her HBR article, "Disrupt Yourself," Whitney Johnson discussed how Clayton Christensen's theories of disruptive innovation can be applied to changing one's career path in a competitive job market. But happenstance also plays a role in how well this works out.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012. Back in 1979, Daniel Bell didn’t have much sympathy for people who felt helpless in the face of technological innovation. “It is a seductive yet in the end, a meaningless idea other than as a metaphor.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

These are jobs in customers' lives that require well-designed hardware in the household — for instance, theory would suggest that console makers might further capitalize on an existing trend, optimizing their systems to run other services, such as streaming Netflix movies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2016

How does disruptive innovation differ when it’s applied to a product versus a platform? Since Clay Christensen popularized the theory of disruption more than 20 years ago, we have seen a first wave of product-based disruptions emerge and become a serious threat to incumbents in a variety of industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database. Related Video.

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