Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

With special glasses, audience-goers are now able to see the ship crash into the iceberg even more vividly than before. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent. It's What You Can't See.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

A "touchdown" refers to the end of a mundane flight not some dramatic event, unless the audience contains American football or rugby fans. This "common language" barrier is one of the hidden challenges that can inhibit innovation inside large companies. Innovation categories (e.g., Here's a simple test.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

His disruptive innovation theory, for example, says that incumbents that listen to their best customers — when their offering has already overshot the mainstream — leave themselves susceptible to attack from companies armed with simpler, more affordable solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience. In the beginning of a disruptive innovation, the thing to measure is not ROI. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

There is no question that the media industry is experiencing dramatic disruption on many fronts—in the way it creates content, distributes content to consumers, and monetizes audiences. Creative agencies unfurl their best ideas to make advertising memorable while informing or entertaining audiences. Humans and Automation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Or had a decade of disruptive innovation in interactive, internet-based video thoroughly altered the competitive landscape, largely leaving the incumbents behind? Generally, these mergers create opportunities for operating efficiencies and innovative new products and services with the combined assets of the merging companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Many of these trends seem to fit historical patterns of transformation , which means banks need to up their innovation game. The first innovators in the market are often too early in the technology curve. Here's one of the biggest that would-be innovators should ask: Should I lead or follow? It's innovation time!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

For one thing, to attract a wider audience, it was held within the confines of San Francisco Bay. Learn quickly from disruption. This Cup also featured a disruptive innovation: the practice of “foiling.” What we heard suggested six pieces of advice that leaders of land-based businesses might do just as well to heed.

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Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Morale 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

It was with this in mind that Russell Reynolds profiled executives tasked with digitally transforming long-established firms, who are often chosen to overcome organizational inertia and drive enterprise-wide digital transformation and innovation. These executives also score highly in their social adeptness, bold leadership, and determination.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

New entrants need only register a URL, attract an audience, and serve just the most profitable segments of the market. can find an audience. If those new entrants prove profitable enough, incumbents like the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA could be induced to look to the web audience for profits. women's boxing?)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

And it's not like they were ignoring innovation. Margins were low, commodity vendors were lining up, record labels offered resistance, they did not have any IP or any DRM and nothing but Mac users as target audience. As it turns out, the path of sustaining and the path of disruption diverged that moment in time a decade ago.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

And it would permit access to a vastly larger audience. Innovation is suppressed. A better channel would allow faster production cycles and more responsiveness. It would allow more effective marketing spends. If this helps free Hollywood from the blockbuster habit, we could expect to see more small and medium films.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

It also has shifted from simply distributing other people’s content to investing heavily in the creation of its own content, using its substantial knowledge of customer preferences to maximize the chances that content will connect with an audience. The final usage, and the one that has the most promise and peril, is strategic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2012

In our database of over 6,000 professionals who have taken the Innovator's DNA self & 360 assessments, people (entrepreneurs and managers alike) who "agree" with the survey statement "I am creative" consistently deliver disruptive solutions — by creating new businesses, products, services, and processes that no one has done before.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

As Re/Codes Peter Kafka points out , the $850 million valuation that the investment by Andreessen Horowitz (Dixons firm) puts on Buzzfeed is much lower than a true technology company of similar audience and maturity would get. But its much higher than what a conventional media company could hope to get.

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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. It quickly overcame AM radio in content quality, coverage, and audience share. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted. Apple Invents a Radio.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Who''s the target audience for the new iTunes Radio ? So is iTunes Radio an innovation? Sounds great, I guess, and probably even innovative. The subject of whether Apple is still innovative has become an extremely touchy one over the past year. I signed up for Spotify a while ago, and like it. So do Apple executives.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules. If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

I am on record of being "long" on innovation in Asia, and I continue to feel tremendous innovation energy in the region. But observations during two recent meetings made me wonder about the degree to which Asia needs a "Woodstock moment" to realize its full innovation potential. Then the top brass left. The technology is simple.

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