Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. A focus on business models.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We don’t know enough of its finances to know precisely how successful it has been, but with tens of millions of viewers and sponsorship packages north of $2 million, it is a good bet that ESPN has done well on its bet. The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” For senior management in insurance, and any other industry, the big question concerning digital disruption is not If, but When. Disruptive innovation'

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Advice 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

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. Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” For senior management in insurance, and any other industry, the big question concerning digital disruption is not If, but When. Disruptive innovation'

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Advice 8

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

MAY 26, 2014

Businesses sometimes need to invest in new opportunities that do not fit the current business or current strategy well. Whenever a division has a business model that is different from that of the core businesses, the risk of subtracted value is particularly high: the corporate rules of thumb are often toxic.

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Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

Had the owners of those assets reacted immediately with a free or deeply discounted version of their encyclopedia (in digital form) to the segments adopting the digital versions, they may have been able to buy time for a successful transition to a new business model. Competition Disruptive innovation' Of course not.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. But like disruption before it, the zeitgeist around lean has in some ways grown apart from the power and purpose of the idea. But you how do you get there? You can''t just ask for it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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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. Catalytic roles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. I wasn't going to do this to our business partner and friend with her magazine dream.

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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. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? There is no one “true” path to innovation. Sustaining innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

No matter how much Blue Nile tries, it won't be able to compete with Tiffany and its bricks & mortar brethren to fulfill these two jobs unless they overcome very significant business model barriers. No company facing disruption likes to acknowledge that they can't win it all.

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Retail Price Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". But in thinking it through, I did eventually end up with a highly personal list I call " The Masters of Innovation " (which appears in my latest book ). To see my selections, click here. So what makes a Master?

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Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

And you’re talking about huge business-model changes that, even if we wanted to make them, would take months—maybe years!—to “There’s no precedent for that in electronics retail,” Ben countered. “It’s a nonstarter. You’ll ruin relationships that we’ve spent decades building.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Apple fanboys and Samsung’s “Next Big Thing”ers would hoot with derisive laughter if The Wall Street Journal or Financial Times reported that GM or Ford planned to rewrite the rules of smartphone innovation. They should. Could Sir Jonny Ive be the next Battista Pininfarina , Harley Earl, or Akihiro Nagaya ?

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Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Competition" has changed when individuals can create value through a centralized network of resources: for example, designing a product from anywhere, producing it through a 3D factory , financing it through community and distribution from anywhere to anywhere. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. Amazon Kindle — disrupting the paper book format and paper book retailers. CreateSpace — a self-publishing solution that disrupts traditional publishing houses.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. What you may not have heard is that businesses who drive people relentlessly create competitors who poach top talent by offering a more humane way to work.

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Real Estate Entrepreneur Attrition Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. How much disruption could Wall Street be facing? In our research, we’re beginning to see signs that Wall Street is being threatened by similar forces.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

HourlyNerd profits by taking a cut of the fees from both the client business and the student providing the service. HourlyNerd represents one of the newest business models in consulting, the facilitated network business , which is structured to enable the exchange of services between clients and freelance consultants.

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