The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. Train Workers In STEM Fields , with a number of policy options to improve the number of people studying a science, technology, engineering or maths discipline.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 89

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? Hence, it is rarely a straightforward process, and if the team is committed to the goals and direction of the entire organization, one no is an inappropriate test of the idea.

Supply Chain 55

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 55

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. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 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

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? Yet all too often, organizations act as if there is. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. Beginning with gathering basic resources and ending with delivering goods to customers, markets and businesses will optimize the value chain in order to deliver goods and services to consumers at optimal levels.

Technology 14

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

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. If you are in the business of making carburetors you are at risk of technological innovation putting you out of business. I strongly recommend it.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Venture capitalist Chris Dixons declaration , after plunking $50 million down on Buzzfeed, that he was investing in a technology company has been causing a bit of head-scratching and gentle mockery in media circles. When Buzzfeed editors do it, its technology. Which you could, with some justification, call a technology.

Technology 8

Technology Company Venture Capitalist Media 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

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. The rest, of course, is history.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." 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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

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. That's essential to tweaking products and marketing campaigns — or overhauling them when necessary.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

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 14

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

DECEMBER 17, 2012

They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma. It didn't work.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. Still, it enabled Medtronic to expand into the Chinese market.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

“Digital is coming and it’s coming fast”; “No industry sector is immune to disruption”; “One thing is certain about digital transformation: It will be a big change for your entire organization”; “Digital will disrupt your industry.” And this leads to a very different dynamic in the market.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Most disruptions have three enablers: a simplifying technology, a business model innovation, and a disruptive value network. The technological enabler transforms a technological problem from something that requires deep training, intuition, and iteration to resolve, into a problem that can be addressed in a predictable, rules-based way.

Health Care 14

Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Clayton Christensen has long been a proponent of hiring managers with the right " schools of experience." Sales were flat and Yahoo managed to lose its allure as a technology focused organization. Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure. She never had to find novel products and revenue sources.

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Christensen Price CEO Media 13

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. ” He saw innovation and entrepreneurship as life-sustaining activities that should pervade organizations, the economy, and society.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? If the antibodies already exist within your organization to destroy new endeavors, you need to go outside of the organization to overcome them. Little by little, they can turn a hypothesis about the market into proven results.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

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.

GDP 12

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 12

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

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history. These days, it’s pretty easy to interact with consumers directly.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

It's apparently a belief shared by many stock market analysts, who often extrapolate future earnings on the basis of historical results. South Korea-based conglomerate Samsung, for example, has a history of making large bets on technologies as they emerge and then dominating the market.

Strategy 8

Strategy Christensen Technology Long-term 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. 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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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” That could be by offering a better business model — but it can also be by offering the same business model to a different market.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 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

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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. 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.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

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

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. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., 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?

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”). Rapidly responding to ever-evolving competitive and market changes (perhaps a reference to Rita McGrath and Ian McMillan’s 1995 article on innovation strategy “Discovery Driven Planning” ).

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Xerox advises companies on how to save money on document handling, and holds a sizable 48 percent market share in the broadly defined, and surprisingly large, $7.78 The wisdom of such a strategy has been discussed in business circles for years, most notably in the work of Harvard's Clayton Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 14