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Some ?What If?? Questions You Should Be Asking Right Now

Next Level Blog

Innovation – The late, great Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen was famous for coming up with and exploring the idea of disruptive innovation – the impact a small upstart company can have on an industry when it disrupts the competitive landscape by doing something radically new that works. What else could we do to flex?

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4 Habits Of Innovators

The Horizons Tracker

Once you accept that truism, it becomes more a case of knowing where to look to spot trends as they enter the horizon.For incumbents, they can often get suckered into a narrow horizon that’s defined by their particular industry, and so miss the trends emerging in adjacent fields that will eventually disrupt them.

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How Testbeds Can Help Us To Co-Create The Future

The Horizons Tracker

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. The low latency of 5G is crucial to ensure that the arms can be operated as efficiently as possible, while the company believes it will reduce hardware and deployment costs by around 30%.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

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. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that.

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How Understanding Disruption Helps Strategists

Harvard Business Review

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.

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Your Competitive Position Is Always Eroding

Harvard Business Review

The question is understandable, but unfortunately it's based on deep misconceptions about how businesses need to operate in a world of constant change. But the reality is that any company's competitive position is always eroding: the status quo is on a downward trend. But the present status quo.is

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

The logic is that if you are present where new trends, ideas, talents, and start-ups are generated you might be able to recognize and assimilate them into your firm’s innovation pipeline. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. The company no longer has any operations at all in Silicon Valley.