LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

Their most known for the debut product, a biodegradable smartphone case. Unlike nearly every other smartphone case, their products aren’t made from plastic. They found out how to take waste products from farming and turn them into a moldable plastic. But within 10 years, Pela’s products become waste-free.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

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?

Disaggregation 79

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Peter Chee – CEO ITD World (China), author, top coach in Asia.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. 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. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

Blog 315

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 315

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.

Career 8

Career Christensen Disruptive Innovation Travel 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

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 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The authors predict that AI will emerge not merely as a technological marvel, but as a beacon of hope in addressing demographic and productivity challenges. With AI’s influence, their projections suggest a potential resurgence in global GDP growth, envisioning a substantial boost to the global economy by 2032.

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GDP Analysis Globalization Influence 26

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

But there are also entire sectors of the innovation economy that are ceasing to rely on traditional credentials and don’t even bother with the skeumorph of an adapted degree. Software engineers now store their code on GitHub , where other software engineers will follow them and evaluate the product of their labor.

Education 14

Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. It’s far more stimulating to, say, examine productivity in China than to teach someone how to do an effective employee evaluation. At the latter stages of their careers, most senior managers are pretty set in their ways.

Training 14

Training Development Management Budgeting 14

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

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. One of the central tenets of disruptive innovation is that companies innovate faster than people’s needs change. Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 12

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

This is great way to stifle innovation without exploring extensions to existing product lines. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. via n2growth.com [.]

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. Imagining pouring a decade of work into a product. 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). Time to panic, right?

Marketing 8

Marketing Rate of Return Disruptive Innovation Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." As people opt into these disruptive services, the big studios and distribution companies, armed with their outrageous overhead structures, will be unable to compete with small production studios designed to leverage novel distribution channels at much lower cost.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

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. Innovation snobbery is a market signal. Pay attention.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

It's easy to ax innovation. Potential future customers can't scream about not getting a product they don't know they would love.) So, the innovation efforts get shut down. Second, recognize that on-again, off-again innovation is worse than nothing. Build it into good people's career paths.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

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.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

His original business, GetAGreatBoss.com , lets great managers showcase their skills to attract talent and boost their own careers by conducting a 360 review of the manager by his or her staff, and if the results are favorable, he links the results to job ads that the boss is trying to fill, making these job ads far more appealing.

How To 16

How To Innovation Creativity Disruptive Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. Ballmer is being damned or defended wholly on the string of innovative (or not) products released on his watch.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. This pundit makes bold predictions about a product or service he's never used. I ran into this trap when I started getting excited about Research in Motion's Playbook before the product had even been officially launched.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive. What the Experts Say. ” Follow up. .

How To 8

How To Bond Discount Case Study 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. By David Ulrich.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

An experimental design for rethinking the traditional career by building retirement into work and work into retirement. From Bureaucratic, Divided, Passive and Exhausted to Productive, Creative, Autonomous, and Happy. Inspiring the Future of Work By Unlocking Innovation Through Chaos, Creativity and Collaboration.

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The most successful companies, products, and brands have figured out how to become the most of something — not just adequate, but downright amazing. Gerard van Grinsven, West Bloomfield's CEO, joined Henry Ford after a long career with Ritz-Carlton. "I There's no excuse to settle for "good enough" anymore.

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. The economic value of much innovation accrued to China instead.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

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. Disrupting How We Work. What could you do together? Everything.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Even the United Kingdom did away with tenure in the late 1980s when then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher implored the nation's colleges to become more productive. Tenure locks in big costs and makes it difficult for universities to explore more productive teaching techniques.

Engineering 10

Engineering Education Class Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That was certainly true for Jane Harper, who spent a nearly 30-year career at IBM asking the kinds of questions most people don't want to touch. You don't have to hold a position of authority to ask a powerful question, and the people with the most powerful questions stand to make the most impact.

Organization 15

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. This is popular both with lawyers who self-identify as stay-at-home parents and with those who have second careers (Counsel on Call is headquartered in Nashville and provides day jobs for musician-lawyers there).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8