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. Set objectives and size.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 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.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

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.

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. ideation” and “rapid prototyping”).

Innovation 9

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

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 teams set themselves up for these assaults, he claims, when they fail to articulate compelling long-term strategies—visions of the future informed by “a sense of purpose.”

Drucker 13

Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. 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.

Sports 14

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen identify five "discovery skills" that make for innovative mindsets: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

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

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

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.” The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Christensen.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

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. 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. They get it. They live it. And to them, it's ridiculously obvious.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

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. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams.

Film 8

Film Christensen Short-term Software 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. More recently, Clayton Christensen has outlined how managers’ acquired habits in allocating capital are putting capitalism itself at risk.

Management 11

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

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

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

See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. There are examples of universities forging ahead.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 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

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

This is great way to stifle innovation without exploring extensions to existing product lines. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. With your permission I will teach these concepts to my creative team. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

Blog 373

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Holacracy was supposed to revitalize the online shoe store’s culture and its reputation as a fun place to work, but the ever-expanding circles of responsibility that have emerged within the company and the resultant endless meetings are becoming a drain on productivity. The pace of change must also be deliberate and well-orchestrated.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. Or to provide a product review on any site important to your market. Also, the advocates who posted product reviews raised average review scores from 3.5 Find your customer product developers. Their marketing departments. out of 5 to 4.5.

CEO 8

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean? That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Both small startups and large-scale technology companies are eyeing the possibilities this presents, and some are teaming up. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Sponsored by Accenture. How technology is transforming transactions.

Loyalty 12

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 12