Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

At the moment that a disruptive innovation crosses into the mainstream market and establishes itself as a viable competitor, the third stage in a disruptive innovation's life cycle. When should incumbents be afraid — very afraid? Remote file sharing.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications Innovation Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. It has become fashionable in some places to mock management. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. First, ideas are important. They have the power to change the world.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Kickstarter funds everything from art to food to fashion, films, and hardware. The freedom to innovate unleashed by the JOBS Act may prove far more disruptive, perhaps challenging the wildly successful models of today’s donation-based services. Disruptive innovation Finance Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

Even if Spotify competes in a similar fashion, that doesn't mean it's better than iTunes. It's business model innovation. Though Spotify did not pioneer this disruptive innovation, it is the first time mainstream media is exposing the American public to it. It's easy to read the above statement and seem doubtful.

Christensen 15

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 15

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. Do you believe silicon chips are superior to potato chips? Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

It was product development in an operationally-efficient fashion. They hear about the advantage of disruptive innovation or step-out innovation and decide that their organization should do "some of that." This was their biggest barrier, not a lack of vision. So pursuing profit isn't a problem at all.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

This is the classic upmarket march described by the theory of disruptive innovation, and today it represents 25% of the worldwide commercial aviation market. Today, air taxi companies operate in a similar fashion to the Southwest of yore. Of course, Southwest is a lone bright spot in an otherwise stagnant industry.

Airlines 9

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Oren Teicher, the ABA’s executive director, told book publishing daily digest Shelf Awareness , “It appears that Amazon.com has again fashioned a program that benefits the retailer it cares about most — that is, Amazon.” This concern is understandable given the magnitude of Amazon’s disruptive force.

eBook 8

eBook Retail Discount Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

This was a good old-fashioned exchange of typewritten, snail-mailed letters — Dr. Chandler’s preferred medium. Business law Regulation Disruptive innovation Growth strategy Transportation'

Reputation 8

Reputation Disruptive Innovation Letter Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

Designers innovate new ways to bring together existing components in a unique fashion. The lesson for incumbents of all kinds is not so uncertain: They should think carefully about their more rigid industry strategies, and how those leave them prone to the sudden irrelevance that is the reality of big-bang disruption.

Automotive 8

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The leading enterprises of the world were ones that fashioned a profitable business model and leveraged it over time. What defines success for a business? For most of the last century, it was profits.

Company 8

Company Software Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. Next on deck is his son, Matt, the CEO and portfolio manager; then me. But here's the rub.

Christensen 15

Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

firms is that decisions are usually made in a top-down fashion, depending only on one or a few leaders’ approval, which can allow for rapid adaptation and changes in direction. The advantages of the German approach to managing innovation are high product quality and well-thought-out services that accompany those products.

Management 8

Management Market Penetration Innovation Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

The next time the problem presents itself, another team decides to hire a fashion expert to give that advice. In our hypothetical example, management sees all these solutions and, say, creates an “advanced fashion service for Zappos’ customers” based on the recommendation platform the fourth group developed.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

This, in turn, derails them in one of two ways: they have to commit wholeheartedly to "fat" innovation — promising their senior executives a pathway forward and a certain amount of revenue, before they have tested their hypotheses, in exchange for funding.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

We're not cutting-edge like Google or Facebook, our company is old-fashioned," some executives reply. If there's one pushback I've received more than any other over the last few years, it is that I am setting an unreasonably high bar. This is not a glamorous industry," others protest, "don't expect us to be like Apple or Nike.".

How To 15

How To Hotels Health Care Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Those that do spend an evening discussing the challenges of digital disruption with us and some of the brightest MBA students on the planet. Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

For example, most people don't know that P&G has built a multi-billion dollar business selling fine fragrances, where it manages perfumes for high-fashion brands like Hugo Boss and Dolce & Gabbana. P&G has substantial room to create growth by bringing the core elements of its business model to new product categories.

Innovation 14

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Business Model Definition 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. What the Experts Say. “We make judgments [about other people] in a nanosecond.” “I do not get nervous for interviews.

How To 8

How To Bond Discount Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Chaos — and the broader catch-all, complexity — became an enormously fashionable economic topic for a few years.The physicist-founded Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico was the center of this work.

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion. The discipline they brought to these often loosely-run businesses drove much of the post-war productivity boom. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It could charge equipment manufacturers for showroom space, forcing their profit to come from those customers who can't afford to set up their own distribution networks in the same fashion as Microsoft and Amazon.

Price 8

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 8