Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

And social movements aren’t only the domain of community organizers and college students. From the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism to the Conscious Capitalism organization, groups are forming with a mission (in the words of the latter) to “inspire, educate and empower companies to elevate humanity through business.”

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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).

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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. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

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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

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

JANUARY 24, 2011

Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change. I can't off the top of my head think of any huge successes of that ilk in the media world, though (can you?).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. We also proactively share job openings from other organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast.

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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.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. They can even require cultural change, which is difficult for established organizations. The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-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. 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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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Christensen.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Wilson, noted that business leaders who “are always expanding their perspective and what they know—and have that natural curiosity—are the people that are going to be successful.” Even when operating within familiar confines, curious leaders tend to try to see things from a fresh perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Slate's Matthew Yglesias cracked that "Amazon, as best I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers." Most turn out not to. With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

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. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

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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. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. or you might not.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

The summit’s organizers claimed that 80 universities were in attendance, but a closer look at the attendee list revealed only a handful of high-level decision makers — and exactly one university endowment. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. What if success or failure is just one unexpected moment away? Ask for the keys to career success and you'll get logical explanations, recommendations, pathways and approaches.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

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.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 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. Stanford professor Robert Burgelman called it a “ vector strategy ”: All the parts of an organization and all the combined efforts of its people need to be working in the same direction.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Pressure has never been greater on CEOs to create organic, sustainable growth. In a wide variety of industries — from computers to chemical processes to a whole range of service businesses — the source for most of the commercially successful new products is customers, not R&D. Their marketing departments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

They can be wildly successful, but they can also crash and burn. Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage. OK, you might say, it’s not fair to compare a large, for-profit enterprise with a mission-driven organization. Clearly, social initiatives are not a panacea.

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Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

And even if they'd succeeded, their news operations would be endangered anyway. That's because, once a monopoly was established, the editorial content of a newspaper had no detectable impact on its financial success. And these digital natives have seen no reason to attach expensive news-gathering operations to their efforts.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In the two decades since the institution was forged, they believe that the foundations for success have been established, with the centrepiece being the Education City district that houses the educational, scientific and entrepreneurial efforts of the city. Unlocking human potential. Institutional advantage.

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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.

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