Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. Is Uber disruptive?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Non-profit CEOs. Healthcare Leaders.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, reflects on the cloud storage company’s entry into the enterprise market. But by staying disciplined with the product and deeply understanding market trends, they’ve made the strategic shift from B2C to B2B work. He was skeptical about pivoting away from consumers, and it was challenging.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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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. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

” Jeff Immelt, former CEO of General Electric. The second wave of digitization is set to disrupt all spheres of economic life. ” Yet, despite the unprecedented scope and momentum of digitization, many decision makers remain unsure how to cope, and turn to scholars for guidance on how to approach disruption.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. 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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Led by its Steve Jobs-inspired CEO Lei Jun, the company has experienced breakneck speed since its first smartphone launch in October 2011. The “jobs-to-be-done” theory articulates the gap between how producers view and market a product and how customers actually use it. Hence the focus on non-consumers. Xiaomi’s Challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. On the other, startups with women as CEOs – not simply VPs or boardmembers – are more likely to do poorly. Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman did both last December when his UP bracelet, designed to track a user’s health, malfunctioned. Imagining pouring a decade of work into a product.

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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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Report Disruptive Innovation Banking Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

There are some classics out there, such as Peter Drucker’s (“If we weren’t already doing it this way, is this the way we would start?”), Ted Levitt’s timeless contribution (“What business are we really in?”), and the question Andy Grove asked to transform Intel (“If the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?”).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

When we recently put these questions to a CEO, he said he guessed his organization was currently allocating 5% of their spending to innovation (new products and services), but added that they really should be investing 10-15%. Disruptive Innovation. 5% on small sustaining innovations.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Before A.G.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

One of the most frequent challenges we observe in the field is that companies tend to radically underestimate the threat that disruptive change poses to their business. For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Margins are maximized to the extent that companies leverage core capabilities in bringing products to market, and are able to establish control of key points in the value chain, for example regarding commodity costs, patents, or brand strength. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

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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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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? But when it comes to innovation, it must be approached even more thoughtfully. He was completely right.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

CEOs in a recent poll agreed that creativity is the most important skill a leader can have. Tom Stillwell , CEO of the Clio Award–winning marketing agency Midnight Oil , explains: “Creativity can be very expensive if you aren’t careful. What seems less clear is how to actually cultivate it.

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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. "Cool" is a moving target.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

To survive, it has stopped selling film cameras, focusing on the digital ones that dominate the market. Organizations such as IBM and GE have adapted over the years to remain competitive in the market. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large.

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Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

While Facebook is still working diligently on mobile applications, CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to hint that the acquisition places the company on the cutting edge for the next pervasive platform: virtual reality. Virtual reality is not a disruption to the computing market, instead it stands poised to disrupt content consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Lafley was, my jaw still dropped reading the retired CEO's description of one of his favorite "gifts.". As Lafley recalled, P&G had planned to quietly test market Vibrant — their bleach offering to rival Clorox — in out-of-the-way Portland, Maine. What if Microsoft gave away a Kinnect in a Nintendo test-market in Japan?

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Innovation Franchising Ethics Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

"Free" product competition strikes again and the latest casualty is Weight Watchers, whose CEO recently left the company in the midst of the onslaught of free weight loss and fitness applications. Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 Conspicuously absent from the photo was Uber’s CEO , Travis Kalanick. On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. counterparts tenfold.

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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. In these fields in the innovation economy, traditional credentials are not only unnecessary but sometimes even a liability. Career planning Disruptive innovation Education'

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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers.

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product. Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. Here’s the fundamental problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. 2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. This isn’t a failure of markets.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

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. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. This remains a CEO’s prime responsibility, and it has become much harder in an era defined by lower growth, impatient investors, geopolitical uncertainty, and rapid technological change. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

The company is already in market and earning revenue. 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. That's utter baloney," I responded. It needs to figure out its business model before it raises more money.".

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Power Consensus Christensen Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. It seems that at this point both the company and its legendary CEO, Jeff Bezos, can do no wrong. China Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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