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How Understanding Disruption Helps Strategists

Harvard Business Review

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Finally, fringe markets like hackers or students can put up with the limitations that often characterize early versions of disruptive ideas. ” I agree.

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Tesla’s New Strategy Is Over 100 Years Old

Harvard Business Review

Edison’s insight provides a useful frame for viewing Tesla’s splashy launch of Tesla Energy and its battery systems — Powerwall for residential use and Powerpack for commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Will it be transformational? The second has to do with scope.

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When Do Regulators Become More Important than Customers?

Harvard Business Review

State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption. The unhappy innovation inference? Your most important customers may not be the people who buy your products but the ones who regulate your company and industry. With apologies to Ted Levitt , a new “Marketing Myopia 2.0” ” has emerged.