Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. But if you can do it, you''re miles ahead of the legions who don''t even grasp they should be asking them. Maxwell Wessel. There are a thousand paths in front of you.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In the life and retirement services area, start-ups such as LearnVest offer personalized financial advice at fixed prices that most middle-class consumers can afford. Our research has shown that customers are willing to pay more for better advice and coverage that is carefully tailored to their individual needs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Do you want to shake up your career?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

That’s the conventional wisdom, and it’s given rise to popular mantra “Disrupt or Be Disrupted.” ” If you’re dealing with innovations that have led to a dominant new business model in your industry, that advice is sound, as the leaders of Netflix and Blockbuster can tell you.

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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." Then, the bar goes up. The next decision is whether to formally investigate the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In the life and retirement services area, start-ups such as LearnVest offer personalized financial advice at fixed prices that most middle-class consumers can afford. Our research has shown that customers are willing to pay more for better advice and coverage that is carefully tailored to their individual needs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

And there are many organizations — from Blockbuster to Kodak, print-only newspapers to pay-phone makers — that no doubt wish they’d followed the advice. Change management Disruptive innovation Strategy' But is constant adaptation always the best policy? Our research indicates it isn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

What Is Disruptive Innovation? Advice from “Mr. It’s a worthwhile exercise to identify the thinking style of everyone on your team. Clay Christensen clarifies his theory. What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop. Research shows that handwritten notes are more memorable. 99% of Networking Is a Waste of Time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Call the investment bankers for advice, since they’ve shown how smart they are in managing their risks and leverage.) For example, as a leader, you can worry prudently and diligently all you want about disruptive innovations in your industry, but you need a sales channel aligned with strategy to do something about it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

What is disruptive innovation? An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? How do I come up with an idea? Build a business model designed around the low-end customer's job-to-be-done.

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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. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change? At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity. Their innovation discretion shrinks while Google X''s horizons expand.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

This experience came back to me in late 2010, listening to Steve Kaufman , a senior lecturer at HBS and the former CEO of Arrow Electronics, presenting at the Forum for Growth and Innovation. On the topic of acquisitions, Kaufman recounted the standing advice of the former head of Arrow's acquisition integration team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Should you explore new technologies that will disrupt current products? My advice is to resist that urge. Too often the preoccupation with finding or creating shiny new products can cause you to take your eye off your most profitable and lowest-risk opportunity: reviving your current product by innovating around it.

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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. In it, Foster argues that technological discontinuities were enablingupstart attackers to push aside market-leading defenders far more frequently than was then commonly understood.

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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.

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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 9, 2014

What we heard suggested six pieces of advice that leaders of land-based businesses might do just as well to heed. Learn quickly from disruption. This Cup also featured a disruptive innovation: the practice of “foiling.” Cross-fit your company. This Cup was a departure from previous ones in various respects.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia' The conversations all went pretty much the same. “Why Singapore? You’ll never find any interesting deals there.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

It might consider taking the advice of NASA''s Charles Bolden Jr. Disruptive innovation' The moment we do have a choice, it''s good bye to all that. Let''s think about the travel industry. What should it do to get ready for Apple TV? The effects could be catastrophic. Apple TV may not come this fall.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

To understand how that might work, let’s suppose, purely hypothetically, that a customer, taking advantage of the increasing range of Zappos’ offerings, needs help matching a dress with possible shoe and purse combinations, and she’s looking for the kind of advice she gets from a personal shopper in a high-end boutique.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Walk in, and you are greeted by an actual person, who has been trained to answer your questions and offer advice. To understand the shift, just walk into your nearest Apple store, where you will find a limited selection of products and no cash registers. The experience is far more high-touch than high-tech.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses. As an example, think about why both consumers and businesses turn to Best Buy today.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

To sum up, remember some advice I learned from Innosight Director and noted author Richard Foster: "Don't just do something. (But make sure you have something that allows you to easily capture notes. I jotted the list above down on a notepad and snapped a few pictures on my iPhone.). Stand there.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. What the Experts Say. “We make judgments [about other people] in a nanosecond.” ” Take long strides.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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. only to fall straight off the edge of a cliff after getting there. Which is exactly what had happened to Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

But if the respected strategy firm Monitor calls up and asks you to meet with Libya's leader — who appears to be considering a late-in-life reinvention — to offer him advice , well, that's something different. Except that it wasn't, because Monitor had gone into the PR business without telling anybody (except its clients).

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