The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. Testbeds are a crucial tool to allow innovative products and technologies to be tested in a live environment. ” Getting the right people involved.

Innovation 84

Innovation Technology Operations CIO 84

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Only those who are able to reinvent themselves, imagining new solutions, and developing new products and services to be relevant in the future will be poised to thrive. The definition I like to use is the that the person or team responsible ‘seeks problems to solve’ and where Insight + Ideas + Impact = Innovation. Look and Listen.’

Innovation 104

Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 104

Mike Cardus

JUNE 29, 2011

The first area of determining what a person values about their work requires the manager to talk with them, observe them and for YOU to know and share what you value about your work. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). If I was to observe you doing your work, when would I see you at your most productive? Do Something.

Christensen 116

Christensen Learning-by-Doing Definition Goal 116

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. Let me explain. Resistance from the Supplier. Resistance from the Customer.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

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.

Christensen 8

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).

Creativity 13

Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

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. The book lays out a Theory of Jobs to be Done in a very compelling way.

Deming 28

Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

Trust is a tool to assess and manage (reduce and/or increase) risk, depending on the situation. To create great music you need an ensemble — a trio, quartet, basically a team of players with complementary strengths, skills and vulnerabilities and a willingness to listen to each other and a common goal.

Efficiency 132

Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

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.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. 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.”

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. That was to let profitability outweigh passion: "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. The products, not the profits, were the motivation. Scores of products were killed stone dead.

Innovation 15

Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

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. They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. It didn't work.

Christensen 8

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 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. Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management. Managers, of course, are among the great rule inventors and implementers of the world. Past work by another economist, Paul Romer, helps make the point.

Management 11

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note the far-reaching production changes Jean-Dominique Senard has made at Michelin to empower and engage workers. Management thinkers framing the greatest challenges of our time as human ones. ” Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management.

Drucker 13

Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

And as usual, it reveals a lot about what managers around the world are thinking and worrying about right now. Reinventing Performance Management. Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team. Two regions of the brain are particularly important for managers. Think of yourself as a product.

Article 8

Article Christensen Disruptive Innovation Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. But one thing is certain: faced at the onset with internal pressure to drive cost out of production, it was far less likely that Gerber could truly innovate.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Practitioners have robust tools to discover opportunities to innovate, design, and execute experiments to address key strategic uncertainty; to create underlying systems to enable innovation in their organization; and to manage the tension between operating today's business and creating tomorrow's businesses. And it's absolutely necessary.

Innovation 11

Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

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. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

Innovation 9

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. The front of the pharmacy was bursting with Procter & Gamble products, with brands such as Always, Pampers, and Gillette visibly displayed. The moment when someone is choosing, purchasing, or using a product can be a great vehicle for learning.

Innovation 15

Innovation Licensing Christensen Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

If it’s the former, that question you raised will be carefully considered and may trigger ongoing discussion — and possibly action — by the company’s managers and leaders. Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

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. Of course with some types of consulting – where the explicit contract is to produce a technical product or system – it may be perfectly appropriate.

Consultative 8

Consultative Definition Christensen Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy .

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

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. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

Blog 373

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

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.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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. Send the team to school. It is always worth asking whether you have really created a team whose capabilities align with the task at hand.

Sports 14

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Managing the growing overlap of work and life has become harder for this younger generation and for parents especially in the last five years: one of every three full-time workers surveyed reports this. So what should managers do? And these options improve employee engagement and productivity.” The reason? For the U.S.

Survey 8

Survey Christensen Globalization Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James. How should I form and manage innovation teams?

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Consider the management consulting industry. Therefore, they made the strategic decision to not rely on digital technology, but rather invest heavily in old-school getting-to-know-people: they developed a team of about 20 partners who maintain relationships and interact on a regular basis with about 700 consultants and over 300 major clients.

McCallum 13

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 13

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.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

The approach echoes Ted Levitt''s famous comment about selling ¼ inch holes rather than ¼ inch electric drills, and advocates a mindset shift away from selling products to "doing jobs" that solve customers'' problems. We agreed to work on a new kind of segmentation based the combinations of jobs that customers need to get done.

Ramaswamy 8

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

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. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Previously, he launched Hulu.com from inside of NBC, and was on the founding team of MLB Advanced Media, the five billion dollar digital media company collectively owned by the Major League Baseball team owners. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, a product evaluating nonprofit organizations may be highly useful to a wealth manager seeking to help his client to select a charity as part of a value-added tax efficiency service. Implement the test programs with defined roles and responsibilities for the Test Program Owner, as well as the execution team.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And Indian mobile phone provider Bharti Airtel uses IBM to manage its computer systems and Ericsson to operate its cell tower infrastructure. That's essential to tweaking products and marketing campaigns — or overhauling them when necessary. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8