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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

” [1] It is simple, but not easy and in today’s world very short-lived. Most organizations think of innovation in terms of creating value: products, services and experiences. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them.

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What Is The Job Metaverse Is Trying To Do?

The Horizons Tracker

But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. LARRY: Sure.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Note, for example, the spirited defense by Paul Polman of Unilever of his long-term, sustainable business philosophy in the wake of a takeover attempt. In it, he points to the growing threat posed by activist investors who push for short-term share-boosting tactics without regard for firms’ long-term viability.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” And short-term numbers at that. Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Let’s Stop Arguing About Whether Disruption Is Good or Bad

Harvard Business Review

The primary target of Lepore’s attack was Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, whose groundbreaking book, The Innovator’s Dilemma coined the term disruptive technology (later transformed into disruptive innovation ). However, Lepore does Christensen’s work a tremendous disservice.

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The Persistence of the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists. But they're notable because they are exceptions.