The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 13, 2021

These platforms allow consumers to easily and conveniently compare prices and so get quotes on a range of insurance products in one place. This adaptive capability allows the organisation to switch back and forth between different responses as needed to respond to an unfolding disruptive innovation,” the authors explain.

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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. What's Next?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Christensen calls this “ disruptive innovation ” and gives examples as diverse as the personal computer industry, milkshakes, and steel minimills. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION? Earlier examples of disruptive innovations: telephone (disrupted the telegraph). semiconductors (disrupted vacuum tubes).

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

According to Christensen, you keep nimble and respond to up-and-coming innovations at the bottom of the market. You make a concerted effort to not let your company become vulnerable to what Christensen coined as disruptive innovation. Integrity Leadership Purpose change Clayton Christensen Innovation'

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CEO Blog

AUGUST 14, 2011

I read a great book by Clay Christensen , Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen called The Innovator's DNA - Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Start by reading his book - Innovators Dilemma where he explains what disruptive innovation is. Christensen is one of the great thinkers of our time.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

Innovating O ur Way to Sustainability , we assert that to address these challenges requires substantial, disruptive innovation across a wide number of sectors. Such innovation cannot and will not happen without the active involvement of the business community. Innovation is more than invention.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Fortunately, disruptive innovation does not have to. But not all.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Disruptive innovators ask the right questions, observe the world like anthropologists, network for novel ideas, and experiment to make things work. For a more detailed look at these skills, see The Innovator's DNA ). Disruptive innovators approach networking in a unique way. Here's how: Step 1.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

Their most known for the debut product, a biodegradable smartphone case. Unlike nearly every other smartphone case, their products aren’t made from plastic. They found out how to take waste products from farming and turn them into a moldable plastic. But within 10 years, Pela’s products become waste-free.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Creating game changers – whether products, services, or new business models – requires leaders to live with uncertainty, embrace ambiguity, and respond to both good and bad surprises along the way.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It is exactly this brand of thinking that is dead wrong when it comes to new product development and competitive strategy. It is this type of thinking that leaves venerable, high-performing companies — like Apple — open to the existential threats posed by competitors' disruptive innovations. It will be Amazon.

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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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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

Their most known for the debut product, a biodegradable smartphone case. Unlike nearly every other smartphone case, their products aren’t made from plastic. They found out how to take waste products from farming and turn them into a moldable plastic. But within 10 years, Pela’s products become waste-free.

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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. Or you could completely undercut industry pricing models by, say, 90%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and the world's most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It’s not productive – IT DOESNT WORK. As a leader you must learn to build bridges leading from old habits and comfort zones to the more fertile grounds of disruptive innovation. Don’t focus on restricting someone’s development, Focus on unlocking their passion and their potential.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We overlook the root of what our products are really competing against. In our world of work and business, competition is a real thing. Too often, however, we miss the real competitor. As Peter Drucker famously said: “The customer rarely … Continue reading →

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We overlook the root of what our products are really competing against. In our world of work and business, competition is a real thing. Too often, however, we miss the real competitor. As Peter Drucker famously said: “The customer rarely … Continue reading →

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2022

A veteran entrepreneur and investor explains why a good story must be at the heart of a successful disruptive innovation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

You’ve been up to your ears in the details of planning and developing new product features yourself or with your partner, but now you have too many growing management responsibilities to do as much of that. You’re afraid of losing control over quality and design. - Some founders have no problem at all with this transition.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

Many focused on their own welfares and drilled inflexibly for greater productivity. Wise leaders know that success in the future will not come from incremental improvement but rather through disruptive innovation. Leaders were instructed to be tough but fair. Champion Diversity.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School of Business studied the role of suppliers in product innovation and found that it is beneficial to shift suppliers when moving forward with an innovative product. This helps avoid the natural resistance to change that the current supplier may have.

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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. Or you could completely undercut industry pricing models by, say, 90%.

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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. Now, Netflix is targeting other entertainment providers and is set to disrupt yet another part of its industry.

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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.

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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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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. By David Ulrich.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

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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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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. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

All the pieces are in place to create “ disruptive innovation ” and “ cross the chasm ,” but the results are disappointing. The problem is that data, information, and value propositions are not enough to sell innovative products. But when it comes to innovation, the truth is often “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

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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.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 26, 2020

Editor’s note: The article below encapsulates a sponsored research project titled, Innovation for a New Era, conducted by Patrick Deren, Matthew Grant and myself, that was completed prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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