Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Is 23andMe potentially disruptive to pharmaceutical companies? .”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In The New, New Thing , Michael Lewis refers to the phrase business model as “a term of art.” Lewis himself echoes many people’s impression of how Peter Drucker defined the term — “assumptions about what a company gets paid for” — which is part of Drucker’s “theory of the business.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The vast, vast majority of these are for software development of one sort or another to support the streaming business. Now consider this: there are over 200 job openings at Netflix headquarters alone (compare this to 61 openings at competitor Hulu, at all its locations.) But overall it's the right approach for this context.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

She was looking at these leaders, these middle managers in large companies that were in stagnant industries, but these managers were still able to have double-digit annual growth even though their industries were stagnating. As things change now towards more innovation focus, these tools translate well for managers.

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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Established industries aren’t ripped apart overnight.

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Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. That’s the conventional wisdom, and it’s given rise to popular mantra “Disrupt or Be Disrupted.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Finally, fringe markets like hackers or students can put up with the limitations that often characterize early versions of disruptive ideas. ” I agree.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

But a larger global innovation insight here demands top management attention. Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.” That challenges how organizations need to manage, learn from and even brand their first-generation customer communities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

To see that larger picture, let’s locate Apple within its larger context as a once disruptive innovator that’s now essentially an incumbent. A fundamental tenet of disruptive innovation is that established firms normally do not react to disruptors. And for a good reason. Consider that Apple sold 74.4

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. I clicked three buttons, and my ride was there in 12 minutes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Before handing them off, you need a clear framework for defining innovation problems and approaches that are most likely to resolve them. Defining a managerial approach to innovation starts with developing a better understanding of the problem we need to solve. Sustaining Innovation: Every technology needs to get better.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It employed a business model that would make it very difficult for the current market leader to respond. The classic fingerprint of disruptive success. The simple truth is that Carol wasn’t in a position to absorb the early-stage losses that developing a disruptive idea almost always requires.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Measure learning, not results.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

In my 1997 HBR article, Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World , I made the case for sustainability as a key driver of business growth. Now, well over a decade later, as developing-economy competitors take the lead, U.S. will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy.

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Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. He was right.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Tesla, Nespresso, and Geox are current successful examples of such high-end disruptions. How often have you seen a firm revolutionize an industry by creating a superior product using a new business model? Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. Innovation Strategy' Not nearly so often.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation. Most innovation is the former, and is often little more than the clever replication or reproduction of what were once breakthrough, thus disruptive, innovations.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I At the Education Innovation Summit the only university endowment in attendance was the University of Texas‘s UTIMCO. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I am a firm believer that companies need society’s permission to grow, and it would appear that Mr. Kalanick and the management team at Uber are coming to this realization as well. ” Mind you, this was well before Wal-Mart management rolled out its kinder, gentler vision (“Save money. Live better.”).

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Reputation Disruptive Innovation Letter Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Customers also want insurance providers to not only insure risk, but to help them manage risk.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Businesses sometimes need to invest in new opportunities that do not fit the current business or current strategy well. Should the managers in the new division have similar terms and conditions and bonus arrangements to those of their colleagues in the existing businesses? Let’s look at an example.

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Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. For example, fleet managers are willing to pay for a service that lets them know, in real-time, where every truck is, how well it’s working, and when it will next need repairs.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. For example, fleet managers are willing to pay for a service that lets them know, in real-time, where every truck is, how well it’s working, and when it will next need repairs.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In my work analyzing the thinking styles of leaders in organizations, I’ve found that strategy is usually developed by people who have a big-picture orientation, while execution is often done by those with a detail orientation. This, too, is a reflection of mental models. You only measure what you can see.

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Execution Strategy Metrics Disruptive Innovation 11

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Danny Meyer, famed New York restaurateur, told OpenTable’s CEO, “Look, I don’t need more business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Develop Creative Discontent. A few of our clients have set up innovation colleges and universities to teach their leaders, managers, and top talent how to find pivots (and the other four skills mentioned here). Once they find it, they work on finding radical ideas and developing business proposals for top executives to review.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. It''s partly because managers of well-moated companies tend to turn complacent — or just don''t need much skill to run such a business in the first place.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system. If the venture is an acquisition, keep it separate from your company’s main business. Futurists call them “weak signals.”

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Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. This story of disruption should feel familiar. But before distributed energy can make a greater impact, more comprehensive energy management platforms must be developed.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images.

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