Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. However, compliance with the strategy doesn’t necessarily correlate directly to performance. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Insight center.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

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. Competing Against Luck provides useful concepts and strategies to use to create a deeply customer focused organization. I strongly recommend it.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others. But do markets really follow the logic of an academic theory? Mostly, though, markets get things right.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. Yet, Groupon maintains a blind faith that growth will be its salvation.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In practice, we find important differences. for BMW versus -2.7B

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

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. It was like World War I trench warfare, where a 1% shift in market share was a big deal.

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Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Christensen 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". They're the ones Netflix has managed to upset right now.

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Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

We all want to start a disruptive company or invest in disruptive ventures, but in reality an innovation that takes place at the low-end of the market or where there is no market (yet) is just not that sexy. Moving into investment banking wasn't a fait accompli by pursuing a disruptive strategy, but my odds had improved.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Whenever I share stories about "green" business strategy, someone inevitably asks me whether pursuing sustainability is against a company's best interests. As part of the fast-growing "managed print services" sector, the company shows organizations how to reduce the number of printers they use. But the present status quo.is

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Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox , Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. billion "managed print services" (MPS) industry ( according to research firm IDC ).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. They are about identifying customers and competitors, their values and behavior.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Ideas in and of themselves do not constitute a philosophy, principle, or strategy. Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+). It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 12

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. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

There is a permanent new dynamism and volatility in the job market, and the cost of experimentation has fallen dramatically. But an oft-overlooked part of this strategy is the requirement to amplify your passions and double down when you see early signs of success. Over the long term, that is a career strategy with diminishing returns.

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Career Long-term Christensen CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

A ‘Training-Heavy’ Strategy. Some may have short onboarding programs for new employees; at best some multinational companies will budget similar training budgets as in their developed market businesses. A good training strategy is directly linked to reducing the unemployment problem. Metrics are your best friend.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Groupthink happens because of basic social and interpersonal dynamics that include a wish for group harmony, pressures for conformity, increased commitment to ill-advised or outdated strategies, and punishment of dissenters. This is done by randomly assigning different team members to argue opposing points of view.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

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. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

Managers working on ideas discover that detailed PowerPoint documents are their biggest enemy, because the details act as bait for nit-picking devil's advocates. This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. Endless pre-meetings crowd out action-based learning. Then, the bar goes up.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As Clay Christensen and colleagues point out in the latest issue of HBR , the consulting industry is ripe for disruption. In many other cases, however, the shielding of consultants from the responsibility to achieve results is potentially dangerous both to the consultants and to the managers who hire them. Execution Strategy'

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Consultative Definition Christensen Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. But they only looked at opportunities in what were already billion dollar markets.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? How should I form and manage innovation teams? What is in a good innovation strategy?

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

The company is already in market and earning revenue. In the late 1990s, I went out to Intel about twenty times, educating about one hundred managers at a time on the principles and language of disruptive innovation. Education played a critical role in helping Intel formulate and execute the Celeron strategy.

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 13

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. We called it a codification strategy to knowledge sharing.

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Education Tacit Knowledge Execution Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Other risk-mitigation strategies . Equity — When given the chance, take some money off the table.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Her confession was blurted out in the midst of our first conversation about the new digital marketing strategy which we would eventually advise them on: "You know, I don''t think I believe in segmentation anymore." In others, marketers were still adamant that segmentation was the only way to go, but couldn''t explain its benefits.

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Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. This is perhaps the most important criterion, since it’s relatively easy for incumbents to use their market power to bar start-ups from established distribution systems. Innovation Strategy' incumbents.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

That''s partly because, as Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman, and Willy Shih wrote in the 2008 HBR article "Innovation Killers," standard financial metrics make new investments look much less attractive than existing business lines. Advertising Media Strategy' That''s happening across the industry as papers change hands.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

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. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. global information solutions company.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

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. But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

And some superstars have very innovation-friendly experience, such as launching a new product, opening up an office in an emerging market, or operating in a constrained environment. Software entrepreneur Donna Auguste used this term when we worked together helping a newspaper company formulate new growth strategies.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13