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. Boring Is Productive.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. What really struck me is that both Xerox and Waste Management are doing something mostly unheard of: they're working with customers to help them use less of their traditional product or service.

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Two of the main drivers of a country’s economic growth are the size of its workforce and the productivity of its workers. He was speaking at an HBR Brasil conference on Brazilian competitiveness, and his message was pretty gloomy. The country’s only hope of continued economic success, he said, was strong productivity growth.

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GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Marketers constantly tell me that they''re the stewards of the brand and while that sounds good at marketing conferences, it won''t matter at all in a world where customers can have a real relationship with a company through the expanded experience of using its actual products and services. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

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Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. You must move from B2C to B2B, or vice versa.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. Both the U.K. entrepreneurs twiddle their thumbs.

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The future doesn't happen in the corner office or the conference room.

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Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Many of these trends seem to fit historical patterns of transformation , which means banks need to up their innovation game. The first innovators in the market are often too early in the technology curve. Here's one of the biggest that would-be innovators should ask: Should I lead or follow? It's innovation time!

Fast Follower 12

Fast Follower Banking Innovation Follow-up 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

. • Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. Amazon MP3 and streaming audio and video — disrupting traditional content distribution companies. Amazon Web Services — disrupting the companies that sell on-site servers and native software applications.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Last week Apple''s Tim Cook made fleeting reference to "new product categories." The Apple TV will whisk us to work, to school, to conferences, to the city, to Second Life, to our memory palace and virtual library, to shared worlds like Eve and Halo. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Benjy’s doesn’t display these products and staff these stores for the benefit of Amazon. More and more people were coming to Benjy’s to look at products but then buying them from online competitors whose lack of a bricks-and-mortar presence enabled them to offer discount prices. We want you to buy from us.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Retail Price Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

It may be a long time before cloud transportation companies offer anywhere near the same variety that ownership can confer. Adapting rules, testing product, and creating the software to enable driverless cars will take quite some time. (Ever wonder why Hertz doesn’t have many cars with more than 30,000 miles?).

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Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8