Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. Like its 60% price increase did earlier this year, this move is understandably causing consternation amongst some customers. Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.".

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

On Fast Company's website, Bruce Kasanoff and Michael Hinshaw offer a nifty little primer for prospective disruptors. Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid? Looking for more?

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

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. Divya Silbermann – Executive coach for startup and new business leaders, leadership coach, and former HR leader at Facebook.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

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 when they’re high, we discovered, they make the adjustment costs of self-disruption high, at least in the short term.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

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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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. On February 16, oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela agreed to a tentative deal to freeze their production in an attempt to boost prices.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

It’s easy to assume Apple Pay is one in a long line of disruptive innovations from the master of serial disruption. They would be disruptive if they were selling insurance from a company new to the industry using an independent, low-cost distribution channel, such direct to the customer, either by phone or online.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Retail Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic. If the odds were 99:1 against breakthrough innovation inside the mature company, we'd still see leaders chasing after that golden ring. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Test to learn.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Though profitable again, the company needed to transform itself into a global renewable materials company. ” To start, the Pathbuilder team undertook establishing a new company purpose and values along with the design of a group-wide process for how to implement disruptive innovations and digitalization.

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Company Participative Diversity Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders. This despite the fact that the company lost nearly two billion dollars in the past two years alone. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

To take advantage of new, cloud-based opportunities, today’s companies will need to fundamentally rethink their orthodoxies about value creation and value capture. Value creation , which involves performing activities that increase the value of a company’s offering and encourage customer willingness to pay, is the heart of any business model.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 15

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. Healthcare Leaders.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Best Buy is a company on the brink. It's too bad they're doing so by fighting their biggest disruptor head-on: by offering to match Amazon's price on everything. In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

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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Company Software Long-term Disruptive Innovation 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. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

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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Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Far from being disruptive, Chinese textile, apparel, appliances, metal, and solar and wind players have done little that has been different from the practices they found in these industries when they entered them. They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices. They have been displacers, not disrupters.

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Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

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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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The hope was their lower cost structure and focus on convenience and price transparency — two things sorely lacking in traditional health care — would engender radical changes. In summary, retail clinics exemplify both the potential of and challenges for disruptive innovators to improve value in health care.

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Health Care Retail Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation 8

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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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., Most companies have taken steps toward “digitization.”

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

One of the most powerful corporate growth mechanisms – and at the heart of disruption theory — is moving upmarket. Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. Mere company survival is considered success.

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Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate. Maxwell Wessel.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. 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. Larger companies, on the other hand, are more like tankers.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

It turns out that disruptive innovation researchers have empirically measured the odds of success in each of these situations, and their findings may not be what you expect. Here’s what they’ve found, and how they explain their results when they look at them through the lens of disruptive innovation theory.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

Indeed, any company considering an adaptation initiative should first ask itself five questions: Do your customers really want you to change? If you bounce from one strategy (say, low prices) to another (full service) and back again, people won’t know what you stand for. Change management Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

Auto journalists praise its cars and financial analysts constantly tout the company’s potential. But there’s a critical problem with Tesla’s product strategy: it’s not actually disruptive , which will likely cause it to struggle to scale. That’s why the most successful innovators usually do the reverse.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy. This sounds simple, but most of the large companies I work with are making the mistake of focusing on products rather than platforms. Snap is a perfect example. Turn Products into Platforms.

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IPO Productivity Products Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts. A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

Sales of iPhones, however, were a little lower than predicted , and the company’s revenue forecasts struck some observers as underwhelming. In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

We had assembled a database of companies that we called "on-the-brink" disruptors. These were companies following the pattern of disruptive innovation. We named seven publicly traded companies that appeared to fit the pattern: Alibaba.com (1688.HK): Actually, in this case it was even easier than that.

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Disruptive Innovation Benchmarking Sample Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

How willing are customers to continue to pay for further improvements in performance that historically merited attractive price premiums? One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Eastman Kodak Company was an iconic industry leader. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. Yet the ways companies make products, especially electronics, have been disrupted and redesigned. But it arrived late.

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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., Most companies have taken steps toward “digitization.”

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

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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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

A recent study found that Airbnb and similar services have gone from gimmick to disruptor in record time, offering real competition for traditional hotels with rates that average 20-50% below market price in most cities. The site charges both host and guest service fees for each stay, based on a percentage of the total price.).

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Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8