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.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals. Still, being astute and agile does not guarantee immunity to disruption.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

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. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

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. Agile Strategizing.

Innovation 88

Innovation Competitive Advantage Disruptive Innovation Agility 88

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Sensors, embedded devices, and wearables are steadily becoming ubiquitous in the enterprise, generating huge amounts of data that, if not managed well, can easily become noise. Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation. Contextual insight.

Technology 8

Technology Trends Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Companies tend to creating rigid routines for specialized tasks to achieve productivity, but they pay for that in reduced agility and resilience. Learn quickly from disruption. This Cup also featured a disruptive innovation: the practice of “foiling.” Gather resolve from your setbacks.

Sports 10

Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Morale 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 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. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. Patient capital.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs. Companies often pull together teams made up of technologists and front-line managers to continuously test and refine paths to progress, remove obstructions, and keep things on track.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Women represent 37% of the Korean workforce, but only 17% of managers (though, in a positive step, Samsung recently promoted 15 women to the executive level). Jeong recently started a flexible management position at one shop. "I Managing yourself' Cho is facing a litany of challenges. Disruptor of the Year?

Management 8

Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8

Talent Anarchy 1

JULY 25, 2017

They want their employees to think differently, and be more “innovative and agile.” Existing organizations are designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model, which makes it extremely difficult for continuous and disruptive innovation. He’s also the co-host of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast.

Disruptive Innovation 130

Disruptive Innovation Agility Incentives Innovation 130

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Measurement risk: Fail to measure the real goal of innovation, focus on project progress rather than value created and turning management measures into goals instigating aberrant behavior. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8