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. LARRY: No, but they shut … This is just in the last six months they’ve announced they’re shutting all the rest of their retail locations.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

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. Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company. Former CEO, Covestor and CircleLending.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

No industry is failing faster than retail. Just last month, the 125-year-old Sears—once the world’s largest retailer— filed for bankruptcy. I came across a report by the Wall Street Journal about Johnson & Johnson and how the sluggish sales of its baby shampoo have forced the company to make a desperate bet.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and e-mail address. ” After the usual pleasantries, Bertice jumped right in: “Showrooming is a serious problem for most retailers, but particularly those of us in electronics.

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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 11

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

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

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

But does the fact that it earned more money in one quarter than any company in history mean that our beloved Apple is alive and well? To see that larger picture, let’s locate Apple within its larger context as a once disruptive innovator that’s now essentially an incumbent. And for a good reason.

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Report Disruptive Innovation Banking Insurance 8

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. The company’s most important customer — by far — was Russia’s government. State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption. The unhappy innovation inference?

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Disruptive Innovation Levitt Tourism Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, Amazon.com launched Amazon Source, a program that will pay retail outlets for selling Kindle e-reading devices and accessories. Retailers can buy the products at a 6% discount and earn a 10% commission on ebook sales recorded for a given device for the next two years. Other independent booksellers echoed Teicher’s claim.

eBook 8

eBook Retail Discount Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the prime drivers of economic growth inside America over the past century has been disruptive innovation ; yet the phenomenon that Lessig describes is increasingly being used by large incumbent firms as a mechanism to stave off the process. How to combat this if you're a big cable company?

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Innovation Transportation Disruptive Innovation Price 21

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. It seems that at this point both the company and its legendary CEO, Jeff Bezos, can do no wrong. Amazon’s business model is based on three pillars.

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Steve Jobs’ successors are at least an order of magnitude more credible as disruptive innovators than the heirs of Ford and Sloan. The computer, software, telecoms, music, broadcast, publishing, photography, retail, and consumer electronics industries certainly believe so. Don’t bet against him.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 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 13

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? The recent failures of mass market retailers Sears and J.C. The company struggled, and its stock price fell, until Schultz came back and reversed those decisions. What is the cost?

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Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. That’s a healthy company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. But in today’s ever-connected world, finding radical ideas seems to be getting tougher for companies.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I am a firm believer that companies need society’s permission to grow, and it would appear that Mr. Kalanick and the management team at Uber are coming to this realization as well. Attractive retail locations? Companies need society’s permission to grow. The company is only five years old (only five years old!),

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Reputation Disruptive Innovation Letter Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

If retail pharmacies had immediately embraced 90-day mail programs, they would have expedited the cannibalization of their existing business. Often when pundits suggest the presence of "high-end" disruptions, what they're really witnessing is a very effective disruption by a better alternative.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Dealing with disruptive innovation is difficult at any time, in any industry. Over the decades, the monopoly dailies saw some signs of trouble: newspaper readership kept declining, and new retailing giants such as Wal-mart often bypassed the papers in delivering ad messages into homes. But I doubt he's reversed it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Lo proposes a $30 billion fund, with both institutional and retail investors. SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. On the one hand, a recent Dow Jones study found that, if a company has more women in top jobs, it’s more likely to succeed. How an Honest Letter Saved a Company (Fortune).

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Marketing Rate of Return Disruptive Innovation Letter 8

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The first experience involved extensive field visits to India and China as part of work with a multinational company looking to boost growth in those markets. Our team collectively spent about 100 days across the two markets, visiting urban areas, rural areas, homes, retail locations, hospitals, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Blockbuster’s management was surely working hard to make the most strategically savvy moves within the parameters of its bricks-and-mortar retail business when Netflix dealt a fatal blow of innovation by changing the rules of the game. The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next. Disruptive innovation Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Disruptive businesses, like online retailers, are often uniquely positioned to perform a handful of jobs-to-be-done, but poorly positioned to perform others. Knowing the difference is the key to directing your legacy business in the face of disruption. While I never bought a pair, I'd heard of the company and was intrigued.

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Retail Apparel Christensen Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

companies still don't get it. companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? BYD of China can. These examples make clear that the U.S.

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Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This follows last quarter's 51% growth in sales, the company's largest year-over-year growth in a decade. So why did investors punish the company? Amazon missed its earnings because the company has been investing more heavily than Wall Street expected. And most companies aren't willing to wait 10 years.".

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 11

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.

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Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber has used petitions to demonstrate consumer—and voter—support in at least 10 cities, mostly in North America and Europe, where it has met resistance from local taxi companies. In Toronto, to cite just one example, Uber amassed more than 90,000 signatures in support of ride-sharing. Consumer clubs.

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Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

One of the most critical challenges facing growth-seeking executives in large companies is deciding what constraints they should be placing on their organizations’ innovation efforts. On the other hand, incorrectly constrained innovation efforts carry well-documented risks. What kind of margins does the offering have to provide?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Another says that one in three companies will delist in the next five years. Executives at large companies rightly recognize that they need to respond in turn. Many companies that are “going digital” fit in this category — they are using new technologies to solve old problems. Software is eating the world.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 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.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 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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