Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Just four short years ago, GE CEO Jeff Immelt declared that “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.”

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

The aesthetics of software and silicon design demand every bit as much of creative elegance as a little black dress or a diamond bracelet. While Clay Christensen is unlikely to publish "The Innovator's Muse" anytime soon, the empirical fact is that innovative organizations are desperate for sources of design differentiation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fashion Christensen Creativity 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

The shop's small retail footprint means there is no "back of the store" and certainly no sophisticated inventory management software. The pharmacist took inventory by glancing over his shoulder at what he had on the shelf. The only machine in the shop was a small solar-powered calculator. Everything else was paper-based.

Innovation 15

Innovation Licensing Christensen Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

To this day, Microsoft Office remains the dominant office software suite, a position it has held since the 1990s. 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.

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Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

To help strategists understand how that works Clay Christensen presented a particular take on the matter in “ In Reinventing Your Business Model ” designed to make it easier to work out how a new entrant’s business model might disrupt yours.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. And many investors intuitively recognize this innovation as a new-market disruption that could unleash a wave of creativity in product design and revolutions in the manufacturing, retail, and software industries.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Software entrepreneur Donna Auguste used this term when we worked together helping a newspaper company formulate new growth strategies. 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. Look for the aliens.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Apple has built note-taking into its software, but when you think about it, when students have to take notes, you've failed to teach them. The problem, as Clay Christensen has recently emphasized, is that students rarely learn at the same rate, let alone in the same way.

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Video Education Christensen Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. If that potential isn’t realized, the money will quickly dry up.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

And while Clay Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever say the consultants are next , it’s not showing up so far in the jobs numbers. The growth in software and Internet publishing is nice, but they just don’t account for all that much employment, yet: Talent and the New World of Hiring. An HBR Insight Center.

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Real Estate Health Care Finance Directory 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Our cloud-based software platform captures clinical and financial performance data in near real time from more than 65,000 medical providers across the U.S. Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. Take my company, athenahealth. We can peer into our network and get an up-close view of the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. The vast, vast majority of these are for software development of one sort or another to support the streaming business.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. The New Urban Mechanics will only, initially, pursue opportunities that can be tackled with a small team and lean software development.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But bankruptcy courts are littered with seemingly clever software programs and apps that were written in the mistaken belief that customers would want them. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done. But was that so?

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's Clayton Christensen's famous contribution to strategy , and you can certainly see elements of it in Apple's story. True, none of the company's three huge successes of the past 11 years (the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad) really fit Christensen's classic disruption model of starting at the low end and moving upmarket.

Strategy 9

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Amazon Web Services — disrupting the companies that sell on-site servers and native software applications. In The Innovator's Solution , HBS Professor Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor assert that, to their knowledge, "no company has ever been able to build an engine of disruptive growth and keep it running."

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

When these forces are weak, as in software and soft drinks, many companies are profitable. When they are strong, as in the airline and hotel industries, almost no company earns an attractive return on investment. ” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain. .”

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Parallels Software did this recently in a customer survey, and uncovered 30,000 self-identified "promoters." As Clay Christensen might point out, this is similar to companies developing technologies that disrupt existing product lines: often, the only way to do so is to set up a separate operation, or skunk works, offsite.

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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. Yet a number of easy-to-use software apps can provide managers with visibility and control of inventory from the order to a store shelf. Forbes.com uses external bloggers (not just internal staff) to write articles.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. .” Brian Robertson’s adoption of holacracy in Ternary, the software company he founded, didn’t come out of the blue.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Its a precursor  probably the most important precursor  to Clayton Christensens later work on disruptive innovation. And very few old media companies did. Ive been spending some time lately with Dick Fosters fascinating and underappreciated 1986 book Innovation: The Attackers Advantage.

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Technology Company Venture Capitalist Media 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In a collaboration to determine just how disruptive leaders find these compelling questions, Professor Clayton Christensen and I conducted nearly 40 interviews with renowned global leaders. But the key—and challenge—to truly changing the status quo is identifying the right question.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Working with Professor Clayton Christensen on the research that became “The Capitalist’s Dilemma ,” and taking a page from his book, we thought, How might we disrupt our own knowledge generation process?

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Christensen Open-book Software Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

So, it’s not uncommon to add a bunch of companies together, much less software products, and then divest yourself of them as the shareholders think they have more value standing alone than standing together. HBR: Clay Christensen has described this progression in technology from the integrated product to the modular.

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012. Napster, Amazon, and the Apple store have annihilated Tower Records and Musicland; digital cameras replaced film and then smartphones upended camera makers.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

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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Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8