Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. Edwards Deming and Clayton Christensen understand that the customer is part of the system in a way that most others don’t appreciate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Clayton Christensen first documented this phenomenon in his study of the disk drive industry , and found that new companies targeting existing customers succeeded 6% of the time, while new companies that targeted non-consumers succeeded 37% of the time.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Good Leadership Advice : There must be something in their message that aligns with servant leadership. Author of @MeasureYourLife. 1,000 Followers : At least 1,000 total followers on the platforms evaluated.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit. That one dark spot on Professor Christensen's prescience was always his predictions on Apple.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. If you’ve been waiting for them to enter the market and start to establish their customers before you do anything, you’ve now waited too long.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Clay Christensen clarifies his theory. Advice from “Mr. It’s a worthwhile exercise to identify the thinking style of everyone on your team. What Is Disruptive Innovation? What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop. Research shows that handwritten notes are more memorable. A lot of the conventional wisdom is wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

I consulted 20 professionals who have worked with or supervised interns in higher education, business, law, and nonprofits, and compiled the most valuable advice for interns from their stories, my own observations, and management literature. This advice won’t cover everything, but it does offer a starting point for interns.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

While Clay Christensen is unlikely to publish "The Innovator's Muse" anytime soon, the empirical fact is that innovative organizations are desperate for sources of design differentiation. Engelbart has quietly influenced generations of interface designers who've come to him for advice. His product designs did particularly well in Asia.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Still, friends have offered conflicting advice on what I should do. In the July-August 2010 edition of HBR, Clay Christensen wrote a remarkable article, How Will You Measure Your Life? As Christensen put it, "It's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. Unfortunately, it is a piece of advice that is heeded too infrequently inside large companies. "Make sure you ask the right questions at the right time." Next week's post will apply lessons from this approach to large corporations.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

In their 2009 award-winning Harvard Business Review article, " The Innovator's DNA " (soon to be a book ), Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen discussed how successful innovators tend to be careful observers. But make sure you have something that allows you to easily capture notes. Stand there.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Research by Clayton Christensen, Rita McGrath, Richard D'aveni, and Richard Foster make very clear that we are in a new era where competitive advantage is a transitory notion. Ronn agrees, but notes that the responsibility for such systemic work ultimately rests with a company's leadership team. And it's absolutely necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In other words, from their perspective, the consultant is not someone who actually produces results – but rather generates advice that someone else (the client) presumably turns into results. As Clay Christensen and colleagues point out in the latest issue of HBR , the consulting industry is ripe for disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years. My own experience as a prospective mentee bears out the importance of knowing what specific advice you want from a mentor.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Harvard scholar (and Innosight co-founder) Clayton Christensen guides innovators to be "patient for growth, and impatient for profits." If you plan for the norm and it happens that fortune smiles on you, at least try to remember the role luck played in your outcome when a young entrepreneur comes knocking for advice.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

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. The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Consistently convincing internal clients that the advice provided is on par with, or exceeds, what they can get externally requires a culture of over-achievement. Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever predicted the disruption of elite consulting firms. Exceed client expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Let patterns guide and actions decide; remember Scott Cook's advice that "for every failure we had we had spreadsheets that looked awesome.". Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In her HBR article, "Disrupt Yourself," Whitney Johnson discussed how Clayton Christensen's theories of disruptive innovation can be applied to changing one's career path in a competitive job market. If you've taken an unconventional career path, what advice do you have for fellow travelers?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

I had worked on a variety of volunteer projects with Clayton Christensen over several years, which led to an overlap of exchanges, including having several common acquaintances. For example, when recent grads seek me out for advice, I almost always provide it and I don't charge.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. I look forward to hearing more from you.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

She''s is a co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, Clayton Christensen''s investment firm, and the author of Dare-Dream-Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream. In the social era, look to the relationships you''ll have because these people with which you''ll work hold the keys to what you''ll create and achieve. Whitney Johnson.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

They remain a wonderful insight into the mind of a man who ruled history's most revered empire at the age of 40 and provide remarkably practical advice for everyday life. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. This is the translation I've found most accessible. So what are your picks?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

They remain a wonderful insight into the mind of a man who ruled history's most revered empire at the age of 40 and provide remarkably practical advice for everyday life. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. This is the translation I've found most accessible. So what are your picks?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Christensen. She also got advice from a small group of people she knew well. Find people who are doing what you think you want to do and ask them lots of questions. Listen carefully and critically , so that you don’t just hear what you want to hear. Further Reading. How Will You Measure Your Life? Ethics Feature.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Its a precursor  probably the most important precursor  to Clayton Christensens later work on disruptive innovation. Ive been spending some time lately with Dick Fosters fascinating and underappreciated 1986 book Innovation: The Attackers Advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

There are two broad areas where the book offers advice. Here, Lean In almost always prefaces its advice by first identifying areas where, relative to their male counterparts, women are (for want of a better term) "under-performing." But is this really good advice? The advice that Sandberg dispenses comes with serious costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. His last piece for us, “The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice” (2015), must have drawn on his own experience, although it’s research-based and filled with case examples. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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