Mills Scofield

MARCH 28, 2011

My friend and marketing/branding guru, Brian Sooy, send me a message saying that what I really do is "Inn-Oi-Vey-Tion." Let's face it - innovation is hard - it can be fun, but it's also hard. " I laughed hysterically - and then realized he's right! It takes courage, hard work, fun, creative thin [.].

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” ” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. We used a topic-modeling algorithm that attempts to determine the topics in a set of text documents.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. Displacement generally is easier to combat than disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. Filling out well-known frameworks and streamlining established business models won’t be enough. Albert Shum , Partner Director of UX Design at Microsoft, notes: “Business models are about creating experiences of value.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Netflix's announcement that it is splitting off its DVD-by-mail business from its streaming business is just such an experiment. The DVD business will now go by the name Qwikster, and the streaming business will stay under the Netflix brand. Music to any innovator's ears.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field.

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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.” ” That’s a concept Drucker introduced in a 1994 HBR article that in fact never mentions the term business model. In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

Matt Eyring , president of Innosight, explains why disruptive innovation in developing countries means not just tweaking, but instead rethinking, your business. He is the coauthor of the HBR article New Business Models in Emerging Markets.

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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. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. However, the ultimate test for a business model comes not from being the disruptor but from how resilient it is to disruption itself.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I'm doing an innovation update at one of our meetings and I'm hoping you can assist me with some conversation starters," a senior leader said to one of our clients. The main point of the presentation is to get the audience thinking proactively and positively about how they can contribute to innovation.".

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Innovation drives economic growth. This logic has risen to dominate the discourse in development circles, with government leaders, policy influencers, and development-minded business leaders fully embracing innovation as a panacea for unemployment and economic underperformance.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Now it was asking the business unit’s top brass to invest a relatively modest sum to begin to commercialize the concept. Team members had researched the market thoroughly. It employed a business model that would make it very difficult for the current market leader to respond.

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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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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? Push to learn in market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Innovation is a particularly sticky problem because it so often remains undefined. We treat it as a monolith, as if every innovation is the same, which is why so many expensive programs end up going nowhere. Defining a managerial approach to innovation starts with developing a better understanding of the problem we need to solve.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Thanks to disruptive innovations , much of our world today looks radically different than it did just a decade or two ago. In industry after industry, disruptions deliver more for less and change everything from how we communicate with one another to how we work and shop. Remember flying in the old days?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?”

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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.” Fuse/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

But does it also risk being innovatively insulting, as well? But a larger global innovation insight here demands top management attention. Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.” As digital devices go, Google Glass is ingeniously provocative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

A good friend of yours calls you one day to pick your brain about an innovative business idea. Clearly, there are many ways to evaluate an innovative business opportunity. Here’s what they’ve found, and how they explain their results when they look at them through the lens of disruptive innovation theory.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For a new digital technology to deliver a disruptive innovation, a new technology must leverage two things: A new route to market. All disruptive innovators in business have capitalized on a channel of commercialization where the leading firms are not present. A new business model.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. Disruptive products and services are unleashed. New markets are created. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. What does it take to innovate at scale? Customers smile, employees cheer and shareholders win.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Some of the most successful and disruptive innovations stem from a company’s ability to tap into demand from non-customers in its market category. Once you know why potential customers aren’t buying your product, you can develop innovations to make your product more appealing to them. Executing on Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. The partnership provided Keurig with the funding it needed, plus the value-added education in roasting and brewing coffee, and gave GMCR a stake in a promising innovation at relatively low risk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

health care market more than a decade ago, they were greeted with high expectations. Retail clinics have demonstrated that they are a sustainable business model and clearly fit a patient need: Today, there are more than 1,600 clinics across the country, which have had a total of 20 million patient visits.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A “ new model for how winter sports are done” that “feeds an audience hunger for life-treating daredevilry” and drives “ high market penetration and. The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation. The process of disruption follows a predictable pattern.

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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. Uber nails this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

This dynamic will persist for many years as technology improves and businesses learn to apply it in new ways. Companies that focus on defending established business models will lose in the long run. Companies with foresight will pursue transitional models to be part of driving the change. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

So how can you spot circumstances where an apparently healthy business masks an existential threat? Pay particularly close attention any time someone comes toward your market with a business model that looks highly unprofitable to your company or is based on a technology that no one in your company understands very well.

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