Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2021

Self-driving technology is cautiously coming of age. What benefits will it bring?

Engineering 10

Engineering Technology Disruptive Innovation Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

Engineering 8

Engineering Innovation Content Credit Rating 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services. He is the dean of the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and an associate professor in strategy and entrepreneurship.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss some of the under-the-radar companies that they think people should be paying more attention to.

Hotels 13

Hotels Engineering Company Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Particularly in the Internet’s native careers – design and software engineering — communities of practice have emerged that offer signals of types and varieties that we couldn’t even imagine five years ago. In these fields in the innovation economy, traditional credentials are not only unnecessary but sometimes even a liability.

Education 14

Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Both are vital engines of economic growth. Columbia University professor Amar V.

Disruptive Innovation 17

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. Time will tell whether Cook and his team will actually catch the front edge of the next disruptive innovation. Close colleagues and friends vouch that he can.

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

How genetically engineered microbes can create a new generation of high-performance, environmentally sustainable materials.

Engineering 10

Engineering Disruptive Innovation Innovation Development 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

The company wasn’t blind to the disruptive changes in its industry (after all, it was a Kodak engineer who had invented digital photography way back in 1975), but its impact on the company’s financials lagged far behind changes in both technology and customer behavior. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

Business Model 14

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

This process of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories. Second, we separated the ventures from existing business units so they could focus on disruptive innovations while the strategic business units focused on better engineering our existing product categories.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent. When First Officer Murdoch saw the iceberg, he put the engines in reverse and started turning away from the iceberg. It's What You Can't See. Keep Moving.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Wireless Christensen Film 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

Christensen 8

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Bureaucracy Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. The frontier economy has unimaginable appeal to the skilled engineers and savvy entrepreneurs. Musk is celebrated worldwide, and deservedly so.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Most pundits, however, jumped over the details of the contact to point out that United Launch Alliance (ULA) will use engines made by Bezos’ Blue Origin. It’s not hard to see why a partnership between a strong, but staid incumbent and an innovative startup appears attractive. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

Industry 9

Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Juan Carlos holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, a Masters in Systems Engineering and Bachelors on Electrical Engineering. Images copyright 2012 Juan C. Mendez and Whitney Johnson.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. Next time you come across an engineer aiming to commercialize a superior new technology, ask if his industry meets the criteria described above. Again and again this story repeated itself in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Gas lamps gave way to incandescent lamps.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking. That's what an innovative leader does.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Amazon is very active at communicating to customers, and invests significant effort and cost to appear always at the top of search engine results. Because its revenue model is based on advertising, it is closed to search engines. China Disruptive innovation Strategy' Alibaba doesn’t work like that.

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

"With proper financial engineering, I am absolutely convinced we can solve cancer," MIT professor Andrew Lo says. SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. It sounds like an unlikely elixer, but a little backstory from WBUR’s Radio Boston puts the problem into context.

Marketing 8

Marketing Rate of Return Disruptive Innovation Letter 8

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. Frugal innovations require frugal thinking — an ability to engineer cost?conscious Think Frugally.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

innovation is driven by a can-do spirit and a healthy appetite for risk, with established corporations and startups introducing some of the world’s most important and game-changing technologies. China can no longer rely predominantly on foreign consumption as an engine for growth. In the case of the U.S.,

Management 8

Management Market Penetration Innovation Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. While automobiles embody many of the most sophisticated technologies around, innovative cup holders influence mindshare.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. Disruptive innovation Global business'

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. Disruptive innovation Global business'

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

Blog 399

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 399

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

This is also how an Sony fell, as it stuck to its engineering-based brand and watched as LG and Samsung created products that delivered clear benefits to digital customers in the smartphone business, eventually expanding to take over rising digital categories like tablets and Smart TVs. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

Insurance 8

Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever. But one thing is certain: Learning from a missed opportunity and then innovating beyond it helps anyone get back in the game.

Wireless 15

Wireless Suri Power Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Consider the recent phenomena of shoestring 3D design labs or the biofabrication labs at MIT , which are taking the plunge into synthetic biology with far fewer resources than the genetic engineers at government labs. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

And then we have Clay Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations : how a new technology that is initially not good enough for mainstream customers, initially gains a foothold with a set of low-end customers who are happy with a less expensive, “good enough” product.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

As Senator Wyden put it: "the collateral damage of this statute could be American innovation, American jobs, and a secure Internet.". Startups — the engine of America's growth — will just go elsewhere. China and India are creating environments extremely conducive to disruptive innovation.

Content 17

Content Innovation Technology Disruptive Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. In the year before Google IPO’d, it did about $962 million in revenue.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Robin Li, founder of China’s largest search-engine, Baidu, is a talented software engineer who returned to China from the U.S. China Disruptive innovation Global business' I hope that thanks to the platform we have created, every Haier employee will be able to do extraordinary things. Understanding Chinese Consumers.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A male engineer, for instance, earned $68,000, on average, while his female peer earned $65,817. BONUS BITS Countering Intuition Has ''Disruptive Innovation'' Run Its Course? Another finding: The 65.2%

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

For a small company with limited engineering resources this is difficult and requires making tough tradeoff decisions between investing in the current product or the model extensions. Disruptive innovation'

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Conducting limited and carefully managed trials will unearth the remaining engineering and policy obstacles to a smooth transition.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8