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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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

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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The topic model allows us to analyze similarities and overlap among topics between published papers. For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. This may happen in two ways.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Some will call this naive, and certainly there can be downsides if not handled well with customer service (and Netflix has stumbled in this recently, which Hastings admits, then proceeding to clumsily talk about business models and cost structures in his letter to subscribers). But overall it's the right approach for this context.

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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

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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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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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?” Disruptive innovation theory expands your view, increasing the odds that you spot important trends early. Of course, the more places you look, the more things you see.

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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.”

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

admissions, which would threaten his existing business model. “We need to position our enterprise for a post-reform era,” she told us, which means “moving from a tertiary/quaternary care model only to a dual strategy in which we are also a population health manager.”

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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

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models. Test to learn.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We all want to win the never-ending race for great, effective, profitable new ideas. We want these ideas without a huge effort, without a huge risk and without a huge investment. We also want ideas with impact, that are rapidly actionable and ideally that utilize mostly existing resources and relationships. Most ideation is done in.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

What is disruptive innovation? An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? What is a business model (and how do I innovate one)? What is an innovation "safe space"?

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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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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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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Far too many supposed innovation experts believe that measuring activities is critical to success. Innovation activities simply for the sake of doing something without context and insight from the measure may be in fact very misleading. Maybe not so much. At least for the big stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In essence, great sustaining innovators are great marketers. Disruptive Innovation: The most troublesome area is disruptive innovation , which target light or non-consumers of a category and require a new business model, because the value they create isn't immediately clear.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Why is Uber going into the food-delivery business in Barcelona? One of the most effective ways to launch a successful disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry is by building your business model in the “other” category. Growth strategy Risk management Transportation Europe'

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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. Every company should dedicate a portion of its innovation portfolio to the creation of new growth through disruptive innovation.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

And as usual, it reveals a lot about what managers around the world are thinking and worrying about right now. Reinventing Performance Management. A speech to the Cardinals that’s surprisingly relevant to business leaders. Two regions of the brain are particularly important for managers. Advice from “Mr.

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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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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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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? Rather, it has developed an entirely new business model to profitably exploit a new, superior technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy. doesn't lack for technology; what it lacks is the imagination and capability to design the strategies and business models of tomorrow. infrastructure and business models — and so policy inertia and entrenched incumbents can stifle them.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

So, my colleague Josh Suskewicz and I put our heads together and came up with the 10 innovation myths that we encounter most often in the field. Innovation is random Innovation is a discipline — it can be measured and managed. Only creative geniuses can innovate. Innovation is all about improved performance.

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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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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. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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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 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

This pushes back the assault and, with the right customer targeting, can protect the more valuable segments of the business. At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. Competition Disruptive innovation' And it just may permanently stall the new entrant. Of course not.

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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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