Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? The very definition of "high-technology" hints at something typically reserved for the developed world. However, the story of Capillary Technologies portends a global shift of technology "trickling up" in the opposite direction.

Technology 8

Technology Innovation CRM Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. Disruptive innovation' Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

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. IT management Information & technology Technology'

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It's too bad they're doing so by fighting their biggest disruptor head-on: by offering to match Amazon's price on everything. In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. It should be competing differently.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 8

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.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

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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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

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.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

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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Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market.

Innovation 14

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. Disruptive innovation' Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Penney: Ditch the Risky Pricing Strategy. Big Data's Management Revolution. It's Still Tough to Get Hired (and to Quit). I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. Kyle Wiens. This was by far the most commented-upon post of the year.). Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen.

Blog 9

Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. 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. incumbents.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

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. However, in the process of unleashing this potential, leaders must make sure their innovators develop sustainability. He was completely right.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

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.

Brand 9

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy.

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Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. The result is a new value proposition: consumers get more personalized, flexible service, and new companies can charge competitive prices.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. It’s an end-game everyone needs to keep a close eye on.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." So many of the elements," she pointed out herself, "are simply good management procedures. What Your Stock Price Really Means.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

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?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Innovation Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Netflix founder Reed Hastings, for instance, always wanted to do on-demand video, but the technology infrastructure wasn’t there in 1997, the year he founded the company.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

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.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 8

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. Patient capital.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

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. Enterprise IT is no different. Sunk costs don''t count. This outdated thinking can be disastrous.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

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.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Far from being disruptive, Chinese textile, apparel, appliances, metal, and solar and wind players have done little that has been different from the practices they found in these industries when they entered them. They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices. They have been displacers, not disrupters.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 8

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. This post was co-authored with Juan Carlos Mendez-Garcia , managing director of 8020world. Let's do a quick review.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation. Distribution strategies.

Media 8

Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

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.

Retail 8

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted. FM was destroyed.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In 2009, Michael Mandel, former Chief Economist for Businessweek and founder of a key economics blog , presented new research in a cover story called " The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S. " There was much less in true economic value generated by innovation than was expected. The third problem with innovation is economic value.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

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.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

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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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8