Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Thanks to disruptive innovations , much of our world today looks radically different than it did just a decade or two ago. In industry after industry, disruptions deliver more for less and change everything from how we communicate with one another to how we work and shop. Remember flying in the old days?

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Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Business Model 13

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. Competition Disruptive innovation' Uber nails this.

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Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

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. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

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. Insight center.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

As expected, the incumbent, United Launch Alliance (a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin), won the lion’s share of the contract; notably, SpaceX was awarded a portion of the contract to promote price competition. ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations.

Industry 9

Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 9

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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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 14

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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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

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%. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Or had a decade of disruptive innovation in interactive, internet-based video thoroughly altered the competitive landscape, largely leaving the incumbents behind? Generally, these mergers create opportunities for operating efficiencies and innovative new products and services with the combined assets of the merging companies.

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I bet many readers have had a project shut down or seriously altered because of corporate fears of cannibalization — the idea that a lower prices product might eat away at the market of a higher priced one. After all, what company would want to replace a high priced product with a low priced product?

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Chief Operating Officer Price Comparison Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg’s “platform” reference has elicited many comparisons of Oculus to Google’s purchase of Android , the company that would provide Google with its own smartphone operating system. While Virtual Reality may one day be pervasive, the disruption of VR is nothing like disruption of mobility.

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Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The “jobs-to-be-done” theory articulates the gap between how producers view and market a product and how customers actually use it. Every time a customer buys a product, they are trying to do a job that brings some value to them – and not necessarily what the product says on the label.

Marketing 8

Marketing B2B Levitt 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. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. Patient capital. or you might not.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. Kalanick gets the same on Didi Chuxing’s board, and Uber gets around a 20% share of the Chinese company, which will run Uber’s Chinese operation as a separate brand.

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Marketers constantly tell me that they''re the stewards of the brand and while that sounds good at marketing conferences, it won''t matter at all in a world where customers can have a real relationship with a company through the expanded experience of using its actual products and services. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

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Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The contrast could not be clearer: Amazon – fearlessly making big, risky bets like a serial entrepreneur; and Microsoft, eschewing disruptive innovation in favor of remaining the “ fast follower ” it has always been, wringing profit from previously proven technologies.

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Company Software Long-term Disruptive Innovation 8

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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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers. They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers.

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Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

I think it's more a case of their being dissatisfied with their own lives and expecting that Apple's next product will fix everything. The constant refrain is that Apple has not introduced a disruptive product since Steve Jobs passed away. Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

But “on-demand” is not synonymous with waste arbitrage or business model innovation. Many of the services being invested in today simply deliver convenience at a premium price – delivering users a sustaining innovation, as opposed to one similar to Uber or Airbnb’s disruptive model.

Transportation 8

Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 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. It’s not just products.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

For managers of industrial-era organizations, the economics of investing in disruptive opportunities were vexing. Disruptive products and services were, by definition, cheaper, lower quality, and lower margin. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants. Such was the nature of disruption.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

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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Chemicals Technology Industry Film 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.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As we reflect on disruption across the industry there are key strategic questions, all of which fundamentally consider balance: What is the right balance between humans and technology across the full media and advertising ecosystem? When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future?

Media 8

Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. Disruptive innovation Innovation Strategy'

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Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail 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). Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Importantly, profits kept pace. Evolving purposefully.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 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. With the attack on Pearl Harbor, civilian radio production was halted for World War II. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Then he paused.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. There was much less in true economic value generated by innovation than was expected. When viewed through the lens of the U.S.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. Can''t innovate anymore, my ass," senior VP of product marketing Phil Schiller declared Monday after unveiling Apple''s new Mac Pro. So do Apple executives.

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Schiller Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Former congressman and CIA director Leon Panetta described it as "legalized bribery"; something which has just "become part of the culture of how this place operates.". Each of them have built businesses that productively deploy resources that otherwise would go to waste — spare bedrooms and vehicles, respectively.

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Innovation Transportation Disruptive Innovation Price 21