Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation.

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Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. This process of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories. A Brief History of Inventing Innovation.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. And even with the best of intentions, most CEOs start off disadvantaged in building the next big thing.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 9

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 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

But our predictive power plummets when there is a time delay or non-linearity, as in the case of a CEO who delivers better-than-expected earnings only to wonder at a drop in the stock price. Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.

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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever. But one thing is certain: Learning from a missed opportunity and then innovating beyond it helps anyone get back in the game.

Wireless 15

Wireless Suri Power Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000. In April 2010, V.R. Employees already know what will make them happy.

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Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In a collaboration to determine just how disruptive leaders find these compelling questions, Professor Clayton Christensen and I conducted nearly 40 interviews with renowned global leaders. But when Smith asked senior managers “How do we get 20 percent of our revenue outside of the U.S. by 2020?,” They want to be remembered.”.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Robin Li, founder of China’s largest search-engine, Baidu, is a talented software engineer who returned to China from the U.S. China Disruptive innovation Global business' I hope that thanks to the platform we have created, every Haier employee will be able to do extraordinary things. Understanding Chinese Consumers.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. Next on deck is his son, Matt, the CEO and portfolio manager; then me. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. 2) Talk shop with other women.

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Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

As Vineet Nayar, CEO of the $3.5 billion global IT services firm, HCL Technologies, puts it: "The CEO should be the Chief Question Asker, not the final provider of answers." What would happen if there was no CEO at my company (or at any company in the world)? What things do I control that I should not control?

Organization 15

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Household debt averaged 75% of disposal personal income between 1975 and 2000, according to Stephen Roach, senior executive at Morgan Stanley and lecturer at Yale's School of Management. And most CEOs who talked about using Design Thinking to remake their companies' culture appeared to choose globalization over innovation.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

It's obvious why every CEO and strategist would want it, but it does not produce the benefits that competition is meant to produce.". We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. "On So what replaces competition, what drives growth today? And that focus filters down to companies.

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GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11