Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." Or you could completely undercut industry pricing models by, say, 90%. Incremental change doesn’t disrupt an industry; radical change does," they note. Price transparency is exerting downward pressure.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Peter Chee – CEO ITD World (China), author, top coach in Asia. Pooneh Mohajer – Inc. Feyzi Fatehi – Inc.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. On February 16, oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela agreed to a tentative deal to freeze their production in an attempt to boost prices.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

We explored these and other questions with pricing strategy author and consultant Rafi Mohammed. First off: From a pricing perspective, is Haystack a good idea? Haystack provides a solution to a key market failure in popular parking areas: meter prices are too cheap, which results in excess demand. Absolutely! But is this fair?

Price 8

Price Transportation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Two elements of it have caught some attention: Snap’s statement that it is a “camera company,” and its intention to reinvest its revenues in developing new products that will take significant time and expense, but which it believes it can develop faster than competitors. Don’t Confuse Products and Platforms.

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IPO Productivity Products Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

billion to escape what Musk calls the “manufacturing hell” the company is now experiencing in its transition from small batch car making to mass production. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

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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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn''t necessarily invalidate it. The Two Kinds of MVP.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

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.

Price 9

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn’t necessarily invalidate it.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 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

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.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

It is walking, talking, and continuing to pretend it's alive, but Spotify , Europe's outrageously successful streaming music product, has just shown us the future. To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done. Enter iTunes.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Customers are complaining all the time that no company’s product or service is good enough at this.”. It turns out that disruptive innovation researchers have empirically measured the odds of success in each of these situations, and their findings may not be what you expect. Nobody does that.”.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We examined how each initiative impacted a company’s value through changes in its stock price, which we used as a proxy for determining the short-term costs of self-disruption. As we studied the data, we realized that we were looking at the results of a rare natural experiment on the costs of adjustment to self-disruption.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts. It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

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. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate. Boring Is Productive.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12

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.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

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.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 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. Competition Disruptive innovation' Uber nails this.

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Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology.

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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 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

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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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

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.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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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Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

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? New forms of content, new distribution technologies, and new business models are emerging at a dizzying pace.

Media 8

Media Content Video Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

The theory of disruption explains why incumbent businesses – with high fixed cost infrastructures and embedded beliefs about what the market wants – fail to adopt business models that lower the cost of their services and drive product accessibility to entirely new sets of users. Disruptive innovation Technology'

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Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Retailers can buy the products at a 6% discount and earn a 10% commission on ebook sales recorded for a given device for the next two years. Independent bookstores have few options that would allow them to compete on price or selection. This concern is understandable given the magnitude of Amazon’s disruptive force.

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eBook Retail Discount Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Businesses able to most cost-effectively provide it will win.

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Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

So here's the question: If Apple could get away with the release of a product with such striking shortcomings then, why isn't it working for them now with their release of Apple Maps ? Or in simpler terms, they were the types of innovations that reject the existing basis of competition in an industry. and the iPhone 3G.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Innovation 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

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 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

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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Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

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.

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Chemicals Technology Industry Film 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. Eric Schmidt, Google''s chairman, has even gone on record to suggest that maintaining this perspective on innovation is what keeps Google growing. Patient capital.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9