Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% For a new digital technology to deliver a disruptive innovation, a new technology must leverage two things: A new route to market. All disruptive innovators in business have capitalized on a channel of commercialization where the leading firms are not present. A new business model.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist 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.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Led by its Steve Jobs-inspired CEO Lei Jun, the company has experienced breakneck speed since its first smartphone launch in October 2011. The “jobs-to-be-done” theory articulates the gap between how producers view and market a product and how customers actually use it. Hence the focus on non-consumers. Xiaomi’s Challenge.

Marketing 8

Marketing B2B Levitt Disruptive Innovation 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.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. Who is the most influential living management thinker?

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

If you want accountability, then people have to have a say in how things are going to roll out. And, be sure to plan for enough time for the discussion.

Tips 34

Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources. Digital encyclopedias such as Microsoft''s Encarta and later, Wikipedia, virtually destroyed the market for the venerable print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Competition Disruptive innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. Such a dynamic is antithetical to effective innovation. That was down from 9.7% pace in the first quarter of 2010.

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In the early days of the Internet, services such as eBay and Craigslist revolutionized secondary markets, making it easy for individuals to buy and sell used goods. This idea of peer-to-peer commerce, or the "sharing economy" as it is sometimes known, has spawned a new breed of innovations.

Hotels 8

Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. With all the buzz around disruptive innovation as a driver of business success in recent years, it’s important not to forget this original meaning.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. 2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. As I write this, on Thursday morning, the loss for the week is nearing 10%.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Last week, Apple beat the already upbeat market expectations, with record revenues of $46.3 Instead, we need to embrace fearlessness, turning people loose to create strategies, disruptive innovations, and next-gen business models. And crucial innovation never takes place. billion and earnings of $13.87 24 / share.

Resistance 13

Resistance Disruptive Innovation Business Model Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post about the forces of competition and market change that are affecting the legal profession, causing many firms to now take the once unthinkable step of letting even senior partners go if they can't produce sufficient revenues to contribute to the firm's bottom lines (as reported in the Wall Street Journal ).

Creativity 8

Creativity Short-term Trends Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But whatever the investment, and whether I'm investing personally or professionally for the Disruptive Innovation Fund, my basic parameters are now clear. What I learned from this disastrous magazine venture is that we need to do a thorough SWOT analysis not only on the market opportunity, but also on our partners.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. Perhaps not as an Apple TV, or perhaps not as the innovation that Cook was hinting at for Q3 this year. Disruptive innovation'

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. Absolutely.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. A brand also has to be aligned with the market profile of the consumer segment. Many companies forget to align customer service with the brand proposition for the targeted market segment.

Brand 12

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

This belief led Ferose to overhaul SAP Labs India's hierarchical, 'top-heavy' corporate culture, allowing bottom-up creativity and innovation to blossom. He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences).

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. The Blockbuster-Netflix skirmish is a case in point.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance. So we are left with a quandary.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 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. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. Wireless rights became more flexible, ceding spectrum management to the market.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne popularized the notion of a blue ocean strategy , which focuses on new markets, rather than fighting it out in “red oceans” filled with rabid competition.

Retail 10

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. Second, Uber and Netflix appealed to a younger superconsumer before they entered the category, which caught the market leaders flat-footed.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 10