Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. When faced with disruption, many leaders cling to their legacy business. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In industries being disrupted by new entrants with distinct business models, incumbents often have an important advantage: entrenched regulatory and legal barriers. These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Consumer clubs.

Licensing 8

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Best Buy is a company on the brink. So, naturally, watching their profit margin drop precipitously as customers flock to these other retail centers, Best Buy is trying to figure out a way to compete. Based on the theory of disruption alone, it's hard to say what the retail giant should do.

Price 8

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The mismatch between metrics and strategy is common in the digital transformation efforts of many companies. These companies expect the organization to execute exponentially , but their mental models — and therefore metrics — are still incremental. Focus your metrics instead on learning and the creation of network effects.

Execution 9

Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

As a result, more companies are being valued based on their current earnings than on their growth potential. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. Such companies tend to generate less growth and value in the long run. First, they must secure the prosperity of their own companies.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

The results were dramatic: the following year, the company reached its annual sales goals three months into its fiscal year. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture. Creativity Disruptive innovation Organizational culture' Alter Your Point-of-View. Take, for example, the CEO of a large U.S.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Companies have been splitting off and de-merging businesses for more than twenty years, and the logic is usually pretty obvious to the lay observer. So how does RBV explain the decision to split the company into two? We now have two companies that are unfettered.” A split-up like this is hardly news.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. Apple quickly became the largest music retailer in the U.S.

Industry 8

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

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.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. The average U.S. Distributed Database. Related Video.

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Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

billion rand in 2017 (about $260 million), while the company’s share price appreciated by a whopping 61,800% (from 117 to 72,500 rand). Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. It serves individuals only, not companies or trusts.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Consider Zappos’ new “holacracy” organizational design as a novel example of how a company is trying to prevent efficiency from hampering new net growth. You would think that launching an innovative company, selling it to Amazon , and having sales of over $2 billion is enough for an entrepreneur, but not for Hsieh.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

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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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Business Model Operations 14

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.,

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

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.". To give you some sense of how ridiculous this is, the equivalent in the tech world would be Best Buy suing Apple for launching its own retail stores).

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Innovation Transportation Disruptive Innovation Price 17