N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 338

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change.

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Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. As CEO Dave Steiner put it, "When your company is called Waste Management, and your customers all talk about 'zero waste,' you better change your business model.".

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. Sometimes it''s the opportunity to try out a new business model, as at the Orange County Register in California.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? In researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that every innovation strategy fails eventually, because innovation is, at its core, about solving problems — and there are as many ways to innovate as there are types of problems to solve.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

. • Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. Amazon MP3 and streaming audio and video — disrupting traditional content distribution companies. Amazon Web Services — disrupting the companies that sell on-site servers and native software applications.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12