LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. You call it this big bang disruption. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach?

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 315

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I gave a talk at the Canadian Marketing Association in Toronto last week. Leaving the hall, I fell into step with a young marketer. Everyone wants to be innovative but no one wants to make a mistake.". Clearly, this marketer was caught between a rock and hard place. It ceases to be adaptive, responsive, and innovative.

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Innovation Brainstorming Disruptive Innovation Collins 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. There's nothing innovative about bleach.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It's not news to anyone who's looked for a job recently that the days of a monolithic career spent at one company or in one well-defined field are over. Many of us have had to — willingly or out of necessity — rethink our career paths. At six years old, I knew what I wanted to be: a designer. I started out designing cars.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

During one of these conversations, a prospective investor turned to Clay, and said (paraphrasing), "Love disruptive innovation theory. My abilities were market-tested, validated by bulge bracket firms. Even in the middle of my career, it felt like a punch to the solar plexus. Love your returns. I felt invisible.

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Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

To a prospective student (or parent), the value lies in assuming these signals will be accepted in employment markets and other times of social evaluation. Higher education, however, is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled.

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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. Wired) The Geography of American’s Who Work From Home (Atlantic Cities) History's Most Famous Serial Career Changers (OnlineCollege.org). Female Leaders Make Startups Successful (Bloomberg Businessweek). BONUS BITS: Please Don't TiKL Me.

Marketing 8

Marketing Rate of Return Disruptive Innovation Letter 8

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

If you want accountability, then people have to have a say in how things are going to roll out. And, be sure to plan for enough time for the discussion.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The book introduced the idea of disruptive innovation to a generation of managers. First, ideas are important.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Innovators excel at connecting the unconnected.

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How To Innovation Creativity Disruptive Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." Barriers to entry be damned.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Interactive Graphic: Is Your Job Market Growing or Shrinking? While the overall US job market still has a long way to go to get back to its pre-financial-crisis levels, it's not all bad. Management Tip Video: Applying Disruptive Innovation to Your Career Path (HBR.org). INDUSTRIAL STENGTH. The Guardian).

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Leadership Development Development Disruptive Innovation Leadership 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Leading Wall Street research firm Evercore ISI, in collaboration with venture studio Visionary Future, embarked on a comprehensive study to understand the profound effects of Generative AI on businesses, the broader economy, and its integration into future workforces.

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GDP Analysis Globalization Influence 25

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Reflecting on the fact that Holly routinely plays with both our iPad and Kinect , I said to my wife, "I think the odds that Holly actually uses a laptop during her working career are pretty close to zero.". Innovation is the imperative of today's times.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. The Internet as we know it didn’t exist yet when I graduated. … Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Transaction costs, Coase argued, explained why some interactions were left to the market and others were internalized in increasingly large, complex enterprises.

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Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post about the forces of competition and market change that are affecting the legal profession, causing many firms to now take the once unthinkable step of letting even senior partners go if they can't produce sufficient revenues to contribute to the firm's bottom lines (as reported in the Wall Street Journal ).

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Creativity Short-term Trends Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. The product's performance didn't live up to early press releases and has struggled in the market. This pundit makes predictions about markets that she doesn't participate in. Life is tougher for the strategist. The projector.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The hospital's glass-topped atrium features cobblestone streets complete with a day spa for patients and families and an indoor farmer's market with fresh produce, flowers, and baked goods. Gerard van Grinsven, West Bloomfield's CEO, joined Henry Ford after a long career with Ritz-Carlton. "I

How To 16

How To Hotels Health Care Fashion 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Communities of practice, where they share a common career or field of business, will extend your offer because it extends their expertise (like McAfee mavens ). This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Everything.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Big Law’s commanding market lead in specific practices areas is also being challenged by boutique firms. Last but not least , some New Law firms target the small or mid-market companies that may have been priced out by the steep rise in Big Law rates. Burton Law LLC.) .

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Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8