Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed.

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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. It wasn’t easy to do, but it was a good strategy.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

That’s why we see so many good ideas either not make it to market or not for long. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. ” [1] It is simple, but not easy and in today’s world very short-lived. So how do we do this?

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Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

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 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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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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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. semiconductors (disrupted vacuum tubes).

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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.

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Strategy Christensen Technology Long-term 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

AUGUST 16, 2011

Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. The financial results of Groupon's traditional business continue to deteriorate, especially in mature markets, and new ventures such as Groupon Now also have failed to drive profits.

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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 12

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. So how does this work?

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The ideas of INSEAD professors Chan W.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

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 the great guru on innovation Clayton Christensen has said, we base our thinking on "an assumption that the status quo in the business will maintain itself into the future.

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Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

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. And this is where America and China's growth strategies come into play.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen identify five "discovery skills" that make for innovative mindsets: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking. Once the candidate has devised a strategy, have her present it to your team as if she is presenting to the CEO.

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Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

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

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 Part of this new strategy is an outsourcing play — they'll take over all your print needs for you — to grab share. Who indeed.

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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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

New technology is so much fun that it can be easy to forget that new business models are what drive industries forward, and that old technology can still be valuable as long as it is paired with a smart strategy. No strategy is static. New-market disruptions go much further than incorporating non-consumers into an industry.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2016

To get that right, companies have to understand what Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen calls the theory of Jobs to Be Done. Measuring Marketing Insights. ” The experience of staying in an Airbnb is central to its customer strategy, explains Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, Chip Conley.

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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

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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Ideas in and of themselves do not constitute a philosophy, principle, or strategy. However while most anyone can cobble together a high level strategic plan, very few can author a strategy that can be successfully implemented. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. Thanks David.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

John Maynard Keynes very famously proposed that the actions of rational agents in a market were akin to a fictional newspaper contest , where entrants were asked to pick who, out of a set of six women, was most beautiful. The financial markets put pressure on you to generate the type of returns they’re looking for: quarterly results.

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Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

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. One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.".

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. I sit on the Investment Committee, along with Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, primarily getting involved when we are getting close to a big decision about a current or potential portfolio company. What does that actually mean in practice?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

We know that the answers we''ll get are nothing more than hypotheses, which will change as the venture gains experience in the market. That is, individual transactions are profitable, but the company is investing in building infrastructure or marketing to build long-term advantage. Entrepreneurship Strategy'

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8

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

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter. And you can use this knowledge to avoid much of the market risk in building a new product.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. the absence of market intermediaries or inefficient contract enforcement mechanisms). Navigate the market’s voids or try to fill them/.

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