Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The presentation goes on to say, "We're in a creative-inventive market, not a safety-critical market like medicine or nuclear power. Netflix's focus is on "rapid recovery": recognize problems when they occur and fix them quickly, rather than try to predict every outcome ahead of time.

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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

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. They build brand presence before markets have been clearly defined.

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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.”

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market. More than three-quarters said they are on a good path to successfully compete in their local markets.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If the odds were 99:1 against breakthrough innovation inside the mature company, we'd still see leaders chasing after that golden ring. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models.

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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.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g., new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). How do I spot opportunities for innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies.

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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

MAY 31, 2011

companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. The Chinese now account for 80% of this market and will soon take it global.

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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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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

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. At the Education Innovation Summit the only university endowment in attendance was the University of Texas‘s UTIMCO.

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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

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. Uber is trying this in other markets too, in cities like Los Angeles.).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. 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?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

What both companies have in common is that they are masters at adapting breakthrough innovations for existing markets. In essence, great sustaining innovators are great marketers. From Google Maps to autonomous cars, they manage to fill needs we didn't even know we had. They see a need where no one else does.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources. Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources.

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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. Should the managers in the new division have similar terms and conditions and bonus arrangements to those of their colleagues in the existing businesses? How should it be monitored and targeted?

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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.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

In business, if you’re not listening to the right customers, it can all disappear before you realize what’s happening. Many modern businesses take stock in the reality of disruptive innovation and try to react accordingly. To get ahead of disruption, managers need to fundamentally change how they gather customer feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

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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

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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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? Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. Here’s the fundamental problem.

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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

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

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

GMCR kept the Keurig team distinct and separate, enabling it to pursue its experiment while the company continued its market presence as a coffee roaster. When the company’s K-cup patent expired in 2012, competitors flooded the market with their own, less expensive coffee pods, stealing away Keurig Green Mountain’s market share.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. They can help keep your innovation pipeline full. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

The company is already in market and earning revenue. It needs to figure out its business model before it raises more money.". In the late 1990s, I went out to Intel about twenty times, educating about one hundred managers at a time on the principles and language of disruptive innovation.

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