Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. Burda says his company (which has its roots in selling sewing patterns) makes pretty good money selling stuff online. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times Co. I am not alone.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). 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.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

There are iterative steps that we all go through to validate the worth of an idea with ever-increasing detail in each iteration until the company can confirm that an idea should be embraced. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia. Bryan Miller – Larry H.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We studied the sector for three years and came up with some very interesting findings about the “adjustment costs” that companies incur when they disrupt themselves. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. You pointed out great potential outcomes, but the trick for many companies is creating the necessary paradigm shift in thinking that will allow these outcomes to become reality.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed. Resistance from the Supplier.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

A certain Harvard MBA with a stellar track record running a Fortune 500 company's manufacturing unit in the U.S. Perceiving that part of the company's manufacturing process in China needed to be changed, he refrained from laying down the law and instead asked the senior team members in China to come up with their own recommendations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Big companies are really bad at innovation because they're designed to be bad at innovation. In 1974, the company's growth potential was waning. In three months, the product was pulled from all grocers and returned to the company. Companies like Gerber don't struggle to identify the next great idea.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company. a holding company that operates seven distinct business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

What remains now is to determine his legacy in company development. To determine if indeed Apple has the "right architecture in the organization" to serially build disruptive products. There have been other companies which preserved their founders' cultural imprints, at least for significant periods beyond their departure.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. We observed this and saw lots of companies, lots of different industries doing it right and doing it wrong. LARRY: Sure.

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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. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. billion) even though it is a younger company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders). A new business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

But what was once a natural feature of the competitive landscape has now become a trap for people and companies who are not able to adapt to a new landscape and change their focus. Two big, well-known tech companies neatly illustrate this shift. Profits appear more and more as a lagging indicator of yesterday’s innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. The subject of whether Apple is still innovative has become an extremely touchy one over the past year. Obviously, if some other company disrupts it, it won''t.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The first will be continued displacement by ever-more-competitive Chinese companies who compete on cost. The second will be disruptive business model innovation occasionally appearing in less-familiar sectors of the Chinese economy, powered by emerging entrepreneurs. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." He and his co-author proposed a new causal mechanism that explained the surprising failure of highly-regarded companies. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. It targets exactly the same customers that taxi companies want.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. If the venture is an acquisition, keep it separate from your company’s main business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular. with previous startup and/or investing experience).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Previously, he launched Hulu.com from inside of NBC, and was on the founding team of MLB Advanced Media, the five billion dollar digital media company collectively owned by the Major League Baseball team owners. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Dealing with disruptive innovation is difficult at any time, in any industry. And even if they'd succeeded, their news operations would be endangered anyway. And these digital natives have seen no reason to attach expensive news-gathering operations to their efforts. And I'm not sure it ever could have been reversed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Doing so for people who are locked out of a market is what made companies like eBay, Google, and Southwest Airlines the powerhouses they are today.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Former congressman and CIA director Leon Panetta described it as "legalized bribery"; something which has just "become part of the culture of how this place operates.". It's a web-based movie service, and relative to a lot of players in the space, a disruptively innovative one. How to combat this if you're a big cable company?

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

She was looking at these leaders, these middle managers in large companies that were in stagnant industries, but these managers were still able to have double-digit annual growth even though their industries were stagnating. Some are kind of innovation powerhouses. I joined Jeanne Liedtka and her research project in the Growth Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Many industries have experienced disruption, due to technologies that successfully reduced inefficiencies and frictions, often disintermediating established players in the process.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It used a unique asset that gave the company a leg up over competitors. The classic fingerprint of disruptive success. Every company should dedicate a portion of its innovation portfolio to the creation of new growth through disruptive innovation. Budgeting Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

George Mason University’s Adam Thierer, reviewing a resurgence of books about the “existential threat” of disruptive innovation, has detailed what he calls a “techno-panic template” in how we react to disruptive innovations that don’t fit into familiar categories. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

One of the most effective ways to launch a successful disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry is by building your business model in the “other” category. That’s because Uber has decided that the company will switch from transporting people to transporting food in Barcelona.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

All the same story: once-great companies that suffered disruption. Many modern businesses take stock in the reality of disruptive innovation and try to react accordingly. In the software industry, giants like Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM have all invested heavily in the cloud technologies that are disrupting software.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Steve Jobs' revival of the company began with a decision to narrow product lines down to a handful, and its big product successes of recent years have all been defined to a large extent by what Jobs and Apple's designers decided to leave off. Because strategy is all about making choices. That's the path to riches described by W.

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