The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

He suggested that the majority of organizations focus on the idea, the product, or the technology. The document outlines why customers will want the product, how they will use it, what benefits they’ll reap, and so on. They then create this idea and attempt to sell it on the market.

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CEO Blog

AUGUST 14, 2011

I read a great book by Clay Christensen , Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen called The Innovator's DNA - Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Christensen is one of the great thinkers of our time. Innovators associate previously unconnected things to come up with products or ideas. We are having a lovely rain day today.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

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. Testbeds are a crucial tool to allow innovative products and technologies to be tested in a live environment. ” Getting the right people involved.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a coexistent relationship that allows for considerable data to be generated that supporters believe drives productivity and allows organizations to find the optimum configuration of their facilities. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. I suppose it depends on whom you ask. Some will say service.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 29, 2011

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). If I was to observe you doing your work, when would I see you at your most productive? Want to increase retention of talent, satisfaction with work & production? 0 = What is relevant to self. 0: What about your work interests you the most? Why does that happen? Contact Mike….

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). Contact Mike… Want to increase retention of talent, satisfaction with work & production? Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. 1 = What is relevant to people on the team.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Only those who are able to reinvent themselves, imagining new solutions, and developing new products and services to be relevant in the future will be poised to thrive. Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2020

Understanding these pieces is critical for strategy teams, product development units, and organizational leaders.

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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. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We overlook the root of what our products are really competing against. In our world of work and business, competition is a real thing. Too often, however, we miss the real competitor. As Peter Drucker famously said: “The customer rarely … Continue reading →

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We overlook the root of what our products are really competing against. In our world of work and business, competition is a real thing. Too often, however, we miss the real competitor. As Peter Drucker famously said: “The customer rarely … Continue reading →

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School of Business studied the role of suppliers in product innovation and found that it is beneficial to shift suppliers when moving forward with an innovative product. In the meantime, the firm and supply chain invest heavily in the product or service offering, in hopes of luring customers.

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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. When we buy a product, we essentially “hire” it to help us do a job. The book lays out a Theory of Jobs to be Done in a very compelling way.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

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. Yet few are really good at truly understanding what the customer needs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

What really struck me is that both Xerox and Waste Management are doing something mostly unheard of: they're working with customers to help them use less of their traditional product or service. And what's really important is that these are not just niche product lines, but fundamental shifts in what these companies do.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Efosa Ojomo, global prosperity lead at the Clayton Christensen Institute, argues that international aid is not the best way to develop poor countries, nor are investments in natural resource extraction, outsourced labor, or incremental improvements to existing offerings for established customer bases.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

The Lean Startup movement encourages a Minimal Viable Product (MCP), building what’s critical and leaving the non-critical for a later. So we need to understand customers’ needs and how well we can meet those. We need to recognize that ‘good enough’ can really be good enough.

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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. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” Christensen, Raynor, and McDonald argue that Uber is not disruptive because it offers neither a low-end service, nor a new market. Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. That was to let profitability outweigh passion: "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. The products, not the profits, were the motivation. Scores of products were killed stone dead.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Successful firms have an established customer base, most of whom are satisfied with the products they are purchasing. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma. They make products that they want to use. It didn't work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

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? ” I agree.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and the world's most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. If a start-up starts launches a better product, at a higher margin, to an incumbent's best customers — that's not disruption. That's just.innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Levitt agreed, noting that the trouble starts when over time companies come to define themselves not by what they do for customers but by the products they sell or the categories in which they compete. As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.”

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. We call them trial users, because they’re much more than early adopters; they’re the people that not only work with the kind of experimental versions of the product. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

With a keen sense of history, Nick Dunbar artfully explains the mechanics of complex financial products and explains why, by their very nature, they can build so much value and in a split second imperil even the most risk-averse individuals and institutions. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

It is walking, talking, and continuing to pretend it's alive, but Spotify , Europe's outrageously successful streaming music product, has just shown us the future. To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry. What you can know is that the markets for disruptive innovations are unpredictable, and therefore your initial strategy for entering a market will be wrong," writes Christensen. Time to disrupt myself. STOP IT.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Several years ago Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma ) and colleagues at Innosight coined the phrase "jobs-to-be-done" as part of a methodology they use to build new billion dollar businesses. Often these observations pay off with ideas for new products and services better-suited for the job that needs to be done.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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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 company's product is not more valuable to users as more people adopt the platform. It was simply not enough for the firm to report earnings and explain that it was investing for growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. The product worked effectively, but never became a big seller.

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