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. Unfortunately, to use the vernacular of Stephen Haeckel , many innovators adopt a make and sell approach rather than sense and respond. Co-creating innovation.

Innovation 113

Innovation Technology Operations CIO 113

LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

In the book, the Innovator’s DNA , Clayton Christensen and colleagues list five behaviors that characterize innovative leaders: associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking and experimenting. Five personal leadership competencies are essential for success in today’s environment: A Leapfrogging Mindset.

Disruptive Innovation 133

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Kaplan 133

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Would you like to meet my team? 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’m excited to hear what this tremendous team has to share with us about leadership. Ron Friedman, Ph.D. –

Porter 150

Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. Does your organization focus more on process than success? When was the last time your executive team brought in some new blood by recruiting a rock star?

Business Model 316

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 316

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Mesh is designed to integrate with Microsoft’s Teams platform and combines the productivity tools of Teams with the mixed-reality functionality of Mesh. “If that’s the case in the existing enterprise space then it’s likely to be the case in the metaverse too as things like security and ease of use will be there.”

Stephenson 114

Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 114

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The definition I like to use is the that the person or team responsible ‘seeks problems to solve’ and where Insight + Ideas + Impact = Innovation. 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. ” -Sean Pillot de Chencey.

Innovation 104

Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 104

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. Saul’s recommendation to build a business model innovation factory in the organization comes from the many real-world experiments he and the BIF team have run in BIF’s experience labs.

Kaplan 151

Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The Relevance Enneagram is a tool that will uncover and focus the organization’s, team’s, staff’s and your values to increase productivity and people who love the work they do. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen,2002) Wikipedia. In work it is the manager ; who has control of the system.

Productivity 95

Productivity Products Christensen Delegation 95

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord. You and Your Team Series. Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team.

Creativity 13

Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Assisted here by Team LBJ. Inspiring Divine Connection. Be Irresistible.

Leadership 100

Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

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. A related possibility is that a majority of venture capitalists use flawed theories of startup success. The Google Ventures approach has its limits.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

In truth, successful disruption does not merely destroy, but creates a shift in mental models. 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 ).

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Bureaucracy Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit. the iPad team works on making their product the best. Same with the Mac team."

Innovation 15

Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

Christensen 8

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

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. A related possibility is that a majority of venture capitalists use flawed theories of startup success. The Google Ventures approach has its limits.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues? ” You and Your Team Series. More than that, they must view this other-directed work as mission-critical to their success.” Set a leadership values-based goal.

Management 15

Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 15

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). Christensen. By Jim Collins. By Patrick M. 2) Fear of conflict. By Clayton M.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

They want the group to succeed, so they pick the superstars — the corporate athletes that have demonstrated success in the core business. But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. Send the team to school. Innovation muscles can be built.

Sports 13

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In fact, my colleagues and I have found that innovation thrives when expert users make up about 40% of an invention team. Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period. As a leader, seek diversity on your team.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Entrepreneur CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

Innosight's venture capital "team" is a two-person shop in Singapore. Innosight's venture capital "team" is a two-person shop in Singapore. The core team, Pete Bonee and Piyush Chaplot, scour Singapore to find the best investment opportunities. Ultimately, a team discussion determines what moves forward.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. Over a decade ago, management thinker Tom Peters wrote "there is little disagreement about what businesses must become: less hierarchical, more flexible and team-oriented, faster and more fluid. But success depends on learning to do both.

Christensen 15

Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. There were no processes and systems in place to integrate the outpost team with the company HQ and the rest of the organization. That meant that although the outpost team had struck gold, there was no means of sharing it among the rest of the firm. Related Video.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. Innosight cofounder Clayton Christensen memorably termed this the "growth-gap death spiral" in his 2003 book The Innovator's Solution ). Then early results disappoint.

Innovation 14

Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

Drucker 12

Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you're willing to acknowledge the barriers in your way, there are a few tried and true levers you can pull to ensure your intrapreneurial endeavors are better positioned for success. To encourage this activity, you give a bunch of your excess widgets to a team and ask that they market them as something new and different.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. In their 2009 award-winning Harvard Business Review article, " The Innovator's DNA " (soon to be a book ), Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen discussed how successful innovators tend to be careful observers.

Innovation 15

Innovation Licensing Christensen Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Being a giant in today's industry doesn't guarantee even short-term success as industries collide and hungry startups from around the globe keep developing innovative ways to siphon profits from even the most seemingly staid of industries.

Christensen 8

Christensen Middle Management Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

But the company had almost failed several times, and even success was brutal. In financial terms, focuses expertise is a call option on other careers, and it increases your chance of startup success, to boot. Thus, companies with great engineering talent have the “acqui-hire” option – they have created value by assembling great teams.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

If doing nothing leads to decline, projects with marginal projections actually are better alternatives than inaction (this misuse of financial tools for innovation is discussed in depth in a 2008 Harvard Business Review article by Clayton Christensen, Willy Shih, and Stephen Kaufman). Thinking that rewarding success will boost risk-taking.

Net Present Value 8

Net Present Value Entrepreneur Christensen Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As Clay Christensen and colleagues point out in the latest issue of HBR , the consulting industry is ripe for disruption. As a result the client was unable to get her team on board and secure necessary budget, and most of the recommendations were shelved. It won’t guarantee success – but it certainly will improve the odds.

Consultative 8

Consultative Definition Christensen Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

When Clay Christensen, his son Matt, and I first launched Rose Park Advisors, we considered bringing on investors at the GP (general partner) level. need someone on the team who's 40-45, a little grey hair, with financial services experience.". And yet every team he has ever played on has acquired some magical ability to win.

Career 15

Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For almost twenty years, I have refined a systematic approach to uncovering the right questions—those that start to unlock entirely different solutions and perspectives—with hundreds of teams around the world, from the C-suite to the shop floor. Step 2: Pick a problem that your team cares about intellectually and emotionally.

Brainstorming 8

Brainstorming Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”.

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. The team began by identifying 57 companies that have made substantial progress toward transformation. Scott Cook , founder and chairman of Intuit.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our innovation team, at 45 Park Lane, in London, started by compiling data about our guests’ clothing behaviors and our hotel laundry processes, getting housekeeping and bell staff involved, as well as searching social media for customer posts. Figuring Out What Our Customers Wanted. A cotton polo shirt retails for about $29.95

Hotels 8

Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8