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How Big Data Is Changing Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. Professor Clayton M.

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0501 | Andrew King: Full Transcript

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She was looking at these leaders, these middle managers in large companies that were in stagnant industries, but these managers were still able to have double-digit annual growth even though their industries were stagnating. As things change now towards more innovation focus, these tools translate well for managers.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology. But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.

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When Do Regulators Become More Important than Customers?

Harvard Business Review

” That’s not cynicism; that’s savvy risk management. Wherever disruptive innovations have captured mind-or marketshare, regulators — not users and consumers — quickly become the customer most worthy of woo. As a rule, innovators are interested in creative destruction; regulators are not.

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What’s Holding Uber Back

Harvard Business Review

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. Competition Disruptive innovation'

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How to Think About the Future of Cars

Harvard Business Review

But despite the prominence of today’s driving culture, disruption has planted its roots firmly in the transportation industry. Innovations in ride-sharing, car-sharing, and long-distance transportation are bringing us closer than ever to a world in which car ownership is a choice—not a requirement.

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Uber Needs Our Permission to Grow

Harvard Business Review

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. ” Mind you, this was well before Wal-Mart management rolled out its kinder, gentler vision (“Save money. Live better.”).