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. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. One yes bears watching; two yeses is a standup moment.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

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.” Embrace your organization’s humanity. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

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. Capital markets is one explanation. Some can, but many cannot.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

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. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Would Gerber own today's V8?

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

The question is understandable, but unfortunately it's based on deep misconceptions about how businesses need to operate in a world of constant change. 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

Positioning 13

Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Like the rising temperature of the water the proverbial frog is sitting in, organizations are feeling the social era all around them, but failing to notice how significant a change it has produced.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

When strategy execution moves too far away from the initial strategy, the link between the plan and reality is broken, resources are wasted, and the organization lacks guidance. Such organizations experience strategic burnout. Such organizations experience strategic burnout. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

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. However, it will not succeed here.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. They can even require cultural change, which is difficult for established organizations.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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

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. And, of course, it looks cool — both inside the organization and to outsiders. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. When Uncle Wall Street (also known as Mr. Market ) is in a generous mood, Bezos is always ready to take advantage by putting investment ahead of profitability.

Training 8

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 8

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.". The answer to both questions is yes.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

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 8

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

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. Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography.

Film 8

Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization. ” Make no mistake, they have substantial relevant experience.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Perhaps the greatest of these misconceptions: The notion that, particularly in big organizations, the lean methodology alone will be enough to allow innovation to flourish. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Patient capital. or you might not.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In fact, it is most often the organizations that demonstrate a “heard mentality&# when rushing to adopt the latest ideas that are the farthest thing away from being innovative. Simple : Whether the new idea is intended for your organization, vendors, suppliers, partners or customers it must easy to use. Thanks David.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. And Indian mobile phone provider Bharti Airtel uses IBM to manage its computer systems and Ericsson to operate its cell tower infrastructure.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

CEOs and organization leaders who read only his column (or worse, only the title) and split HR as he suggests, will make a serious mistake that will destroy value for their shareholders and constituents. Lets be clear. Ram Charans recommendation is wrong. While he may be wrong, he may also be as wise as Solomon.

Charan 13

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Pressure has never been greater on CEOs to create organic, sustainable growth. Their marketing departments. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In particular, getting customers to market and sell for you. Or to provide a product review on any site important to your market.

CEO 8

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Moreover, in advance, you can never be entirely sure that your original market choices will play out and will generate sufficient income by themselves. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. Instead, in holacracy and sociocracy, self-organization coexists with and complements a robust hierarchy.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. The desperate-to-prove-himself banker found a chart that showed how the housing market was overpriced.

Succession 16

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Too much efficiency can be just as deadly as too little, if it leaves an organization unable to cope with change — either because it's too fragile to survive a crisis or too rigid to adapt to industry changes. In combat, the fact that someone is actively trying to disrupt your operation changes the calculation.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Harvard Professor and Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen alerted the world to the pattern of disruptive change almost two decades ago. Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. Coming of age.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses. Streets, subways, faculties and hospitals are all being built, but such infrastructure is not enough to make a community innovative.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 88