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. Most acknowledge Cook as exceptional at execution, but we know little about whether he has the innovator's DNA to "see what's next," the way Jobs did consistently.

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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'

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

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.

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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

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. via n2growth.com [.]

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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. boards, and yet make up less than 7 percent of senior leadership at startups. Female Leaders Make Startups Successful (Bloomberg Businessweek).

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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.

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Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

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 Find Pivots.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A male engineer, for instance, earned $68,000, on average, while his female peer earned $65,817. Andrea Ovans Unsolid Ground Lessons from a Drowning Nation Washington Post On Leadership Executives in struggling industries sometimes find themselves in the unenviable position of having to plan for the end of a company.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Each of the industries that have sprung up around these innovations has become an engine for America's economic growth. Instead, it's environmental — and much of the blame rests at the feet of the country's political leadership. Amazingly, each time as one has begun to slow down, the next one has picked up. government.

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Politics Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". .* Kodak wasn't blind to this shift. It created a working prototype of a digital camera in 1975.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. So congratulations graduates – as you move forward in your careers, you’ll be face to face with innovation that’s relentless. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. It’s the paradox of progress in a capitalist economy.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

As a result, one of the engineers asked him directly: “What the hell does a mobile phone have to do with taxes?” While active questioning fosters creative leadership, it does not guarantee creative organizations as a whole. Disruptive innovation Leadership Organizational culture' They want to be remembered.”.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Ferose also encouraged his 4,000 plus employees — primarily engineers — to expose themselves to new environments and situations that would challenge their existing perspectives, unleash their innate ingenuity, and accelerate their learning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. A follow-up article, coauthored with Amy Edmondson and Francesca Gino, delved more deeply into such issues as psychological safety, openness to new ideas, and leadership attention. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That turns out to be a powerful approach to leadership in a world of expanding complexity, immense challenges and intense change. Questions are a powerful antidote to hubris , which inevitably arises in a culture that celebrates mastery, values decisiveness, and reveres the top guy (or gal).

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Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Imagine, if you will, a car engine so woefully inefficient that only 13% of the gas it consumes actually combusts. Disruptive innovation Innovation Organizational culture'

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