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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

First Friday Book Synopsis

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.

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Just to whet your appetite… book selections for upcoming months – (Clayton Christensen; Robert Cialdini; Tim Ferris; and other authors)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Subtitled The Twelve Technological Forces That Will Shape our Future, Mr. Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, knows what he is talking… Read More Just to whet your appetite… book selections for upcoming months – (Clayton Christensen; Robert Cialdini; Tim Ferris; and other authors).

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Disruptive Change vs. The Small Steps of Kaizen (Maybe not Either/Or, but Both/And)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Christensen. Here’s the description (from Wikipedia): A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. But I […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving.

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Entrepreneurs Need A Detailed Understanding Of Their Customer’s Problems

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a problem I argued recently that many peddlers of metaverse technologies are falling foul of. He suggested that the majority of organizations focus on the idea, the product, or the technology. They then create this idea and attempt to sell it on the market. Understanding the customer.

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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. Bunkered away in R&D labs they often fall into the trap of focusing almost exclusively on the technology they’re developing rather than on the customer need it should be meeting.

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The Innovator’s Dilemma: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published.