N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

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. Is Uber disruptive?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. The majority of market observers reckon there is no way that it could slay the giant. Disruption occurs given two criteria.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Incremental change doesn’t disrupt an industry; radical change does," they note. You don’t cut prices by 90% through marginal improvements in existing products. The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. In the meantime, the firm and supply chain invest heavily in the product or service offering, in hopes of luring customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” ” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. Or, they may create markets where no market exists and turn non-consumers into consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. You call it this big bang disruption. DAVID: Yeah.

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2020

When you think about it, the model of disruptive innovation is the exception, not the rule. Many leaders associate the term “innovation” with game-changing disruptions of existing industries or the creation of entirely new ones, like the way Apple’s iTunes helped create a whole new way to sell and distribute music.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Incremental change doesn’t disrupt an industry; radical change does," they note. You don’t cut prices by 90% through marginal improvements in existing products. The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. And they are comfortable using rapid design cycles to prototype and test products/services in the market, rather than depending on traditional marketing analysis. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? Focus on value creation. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Sustaining Innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. When Innovation Is Strategy. What do you do?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. So I’ll pose a question now: What questions should corporate innovators use to increase their odds of success? Identifying the Threat of Disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. The problem is that data, information, and value propositions are not enough to sell innovative products.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Innovation is a particularly sticky problem because it so often remains undefined. We treat it as a monolith, as if every innovation is the same, which is why so many expensive programs end up going nowhere. Defining a managerial approach to innovation starts with developing a better understanding of the problem we need to solve.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Innovation drives economic growth. This logic has risen to dominate the discourse in development circles, with government leaders, policy influencers, and development-minded business leaders fully embracing innovation as a panacea for unemployment and economic underperformance.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The finished product looks much like an enormous dandelion gone to seed and ready to blow into the wind. It boldly enters a space where no real market has previously existed , and could well inspire investors to create one. He’s an innovator. Twitter didn’t steal market share in a head-to-head shootout.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

As Lafley recalled, P&G had planned to quietly test market Vibrant — their bleach offering to rival Clorox — in out-of-the-way Portland, Maine. Clorox effectively trashed P&G's new product initiative. They throttled a potential David — or Goliath — in its test-marketing crib. Clorox found out. "Do

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Some of the most successful and disruptive innovations stem from a company’s ability to tap into demand from non-customers in its market category. Once you know why potential customers aren’t buying your product, you can develop innovations to make your product more appealing to them.

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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. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

For over an hour, the panel discussed all of the innovative projects they’d worked on — spanning projects from Google Fiber to ad bidding technologies at Facebook. Yes, all of the panelists were speaking broadly on innovative projects. But innovation is a word that means a wide variety of things to a wide variety of people.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. Disruptive products and services are unleashed. New markets are created. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. What does it take to innovate at scale? What's not to like? Stay "open" longer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Push to learn in market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 18, 2017

Today's conventional wisdom says to survive, companies must move beyond incremental innovation and invest in radical, disruptive innovation. In "THE POWER OF LITTLE IDEAS" , Wharton professor David Robertson examines an approach to innovation; one that is neither incremental nor disruptive. Unlocking Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

A good friend of yours calls you one day to pick your brain about an innovative business idea. Clearly, there are many ways to evaluate an innovative business opportunity. Customers are complaining all the time that no company’s product or service is good enough at this.”. Consider this situation. Nobody does that.”.

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