LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. LARRY: Sure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

And pretty much every product you can buy at Best Buy, you can get at Amazon cheaper and with free delivery — so people do. It's too bad they're doing so by fighting their biggest disruptor head-on: by offering to match Amazon's price on everything. To survive disruption, managers of legacy businesses need to change the game.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Since the mid-2000s, however, this model has been under threat from a new, decentralized model, in which electricity is generated on a much smaller scale near or at the point of use, often through a combination of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, batteries, and the digital management of the electricity grid.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Penney: Ditch the Risky Pricing Strategy. Boring Is Productive. Here's Why. Kyle Wiens.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

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. I clicked three buttons, and my ride was there in 12 minutes. Uber nails this.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

If you bounce from one strategy (say, low prices) to another (full service) and back again, people won’t know what you stand for. The company struggled, and its stock price fell, until Schultz came back and reversed those decisions. Change management Disruptive innovation Strategy' Will you confuse people?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. Pursuing innovation inside a big company is a balancing act. Transfer pricing inside a company is already a complex issue.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple. Over the past 18 months the company’s stock price has careened from $705 (in Sept.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

"Free" product competition strikes again and the latest casualty is Weight Watchers, whose CEO recently left the company in the midst of the onslaught of free weight loss and fitness applications. At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. The story is the same with Weight Watchers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. And so, even with the price premium, Michelin was the only company that had figured out how to produce radial tires profitably at scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

These were companies following the pattern of disruptive innovation. Now, I'm always hesitant to avoid basing too much on a company's stock performance as stock prices can move around for many reasons. We had assembled a database of companies that we called "on-the-brink" disruptors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

At the time of the Geek Squad acquisition, it was considered foolish by many; a decade later, the $3 million purchase price has been repaid hundreds of times over. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

The care, feeding, and culture of productive talent deserve all the attention and debate they get — and more. Relative to the enormous economic value talent can deliver, gluten-free gourmet cafeterias and concierge service represent a small price to pay. Keeping it productively innovative and innovatively productive is another.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? The company appeared at this year's International Auto Show in Detroit with a mid-sized hybrid car that, at under $30,000, has better fuel efficiency than any other such product in the world. BYD of China can.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

With the rise of distributed forms of energy, such as rooftop solar power, and batteries , it’s become much more feasible to match individual demand for electricity with on-site production. The result is a new value proposition: consumers get more personalized, flexible service, and new companies can charge competitive prices.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

But our predictive power plummets when there is a time delay or non-linearity, as in the case of a CEO who delivers better-than-expected earnings only to wonder at a drop in the stock price. Or paraphrasing James Allworth , "Steve Jobs solved the innovator's dilemma because his focus was never on profit, but better and better products."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The answer may be that the innovator’s dilemma is no longer the only paradox at play in innovation management. During my time with Harvard Business School’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, we regularly referred to disruption as a problem of accounting and organizational design. The Old Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? For the next generation, that game will often be about pushing the production and provision of products and services ever closer to the moment of demand. price for all trades, online or otherwise. ’ So we did.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Already it has moved well beyond prototyping and, as I explain in a new HBR article, it will increasingly be used to produce high-volume parts and products in several industries. Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. And Nielsen has no reason to cede control of it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.' At the company level, stock price is the measure." "On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. And that focus filters down to companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Programmatic technologies allow us to perform a match between placement and price in a highly dynamic, high-volume environment, as a complement to the people-driven processes. Chief marketing officers and their teams contemplate and shape the brand attributes that best define the relationship between a product or service and its customers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. How will they perform well enough for us to meet our targets?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As families moved out to the suburbs, and interstate highways improved distribution and logistics, a single location focused on a particular product area made a lot of sense. Massive big-box stores, providing lower prices and greater selection, crushed small-scale retailers in town squares and shopping malls. In their 2005 book, W.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

billion rand in 2017 (about $260 million), while the company’s share price appreciated by a whopping 61,800% (from 117 to 72,500 rand). It offers them a single account: Everybody gets a gold card with exactly the same conditions, prices, and services. Yet Capitec’s management was thinking ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. Apple , Amazon , and Google are not the only examples risk taking of game-changing innovations.

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