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%. This is purely about executing within an existing and stable operating model. Disruptive Innovation.

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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. I felt like those rules as I was reading what sort of makes these big bang disruptive innovations succeed, those rules I think are still in place.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

More than half of the executives we surveyed believe their operational model is in need of change and disruption. After all, we expect incumbents to feel most confident about the future when they believe their operating models are sustainable — and to fear extinction when disruption is on the march.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. So they are more likely to recognize, for example, when a company’s legacy IT system has become a stumbling block to progress – a common affliction in retail operations.

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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

MAY 21, 2015

The idea of disruption excites some people and terrifies others. Consider the recent case of The New Republic , in which a new, disruptive CEO came in and vowed to “break s**t.” Kenneth Andersson. ” The company’s top journalists balked, the brand was sullied, and the business still struggles.

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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. While Virtual Reality may one day be pervasive, the disruption of VR is nothing like disruption of mobility.

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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. Much of the U.S.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” It is one of the top selling business books of all time and a favourite among CEOs. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Jim Collins.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

This is the classic upmarket march described by the theory of disruptive innovation, and today it represents 25% of the worldwide commercial aviation market. Today, air taxi companies operate in a similar fashion to the Southwest of yore. Of course, Southwest is a lone bright spot in an otherwise stagnant industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The former CEO believes that delivering profits is the main measure of a company, and he’s justly proud of the $250 billion of profits Microsoft generated during his tenure over 14 years. Profits appear more and more as a lagging indicator of yesterday’s innovations. Consider Microsoft under Steve Ballmer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Those administrators in the position to understand the imperative to innovate don’t actually have control over purse strings. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. For universities, joining the league of innovation may require casting aside the firewall between endowment money and innovation in education.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

The core lesson is that, if you allow the existing businesses to determine where people and funds are allocated, you won't get innovation. You're trying to fit innovation into the structure that you have. Brad Anderson, the very wise recent CEO of Best Buy, made an observation that has stuck with me.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

It’s expensive, but you agree to pay an innovation premium because you appreciate that in innovation clusters the search for talent is fierce. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. The company no longer has any operations at all in Silicon Valley. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Take, for example, the CEO of a large U.S. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture. Creativity Disruptive innovation Organizational culture' I come across this phenomenon rather consistently in large organizations.

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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. Disruptive innovation Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Second, they should consider opening similar near-shore facilities to treat some of their own patients and to serve as a lab for process innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary. What white-goods producer Haier has chosen to do is to offer every employee (and there are 80,000 of them) the opportunity to effectively become the CEO of a real operating company, provided that their dreams have real merit. Understanding Chinese Consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Zenefits’ recently-ousted CEO even created a tool that enabled its agents to skip state-mandated online training courses. So how might a hotel operator respond to the rise of Airbnb? Zenefits’ HR software has clear appeal, but regulators across the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

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. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently said: “How do we create AI to augment human capabilities and enhance the human experience?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

According to the CEO of Gannett, Gracia Martore , one reason for the split is that the combined businesses had a liability: anti-trust restrictions. So how would the addition of a concept of liabilities to the RBV help us explain Gannett’s decision?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Every winter, my colleagues and I invite CEOs of some of the world’s largest businesses to join our students at Stanford University. Those that do spend an evening discussing the challenges of digital disruption with us and some of the brightest MBA students on the planet. They are not asset-heavy. They are asset-light.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Others found a fresh angle through their own stories, like Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya speaking of the unusual first order he gave as CEO. Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani, speaking at University at Albany. Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, speaking at Johns Hopkins University. Read HBR’s interview with Ulukaya.).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

CEOs of competing automakers are reassured to see a large group of consumers getting excited about purchasing cars again. ” That isn’t very specific but I think we can take it to mean that Ford is handling disruption by investing in a separate business unit. They feel a bit relieved, maybe even overjoyed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Unlike in the West, where corporate policies on IT easily date back five decades, and where systems deployed two decades ago are still in operation, the African enterprise has discovered IT just at the onset of cloud-thinking. When it becomes obvious that IT is a bottom-line matter, it is the CEO who usually has to make the call.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. Today, Apple sits at a crossroads.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Last year’s WEF Summit on the Global Agenda saw multinational CEOs, academics, and consultants alike preaching the need for business to adapt to the on-demand economy. But not every on-demand idea is positioned to upend your operations. That phone can make anything you want appear “on-demand.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. In a statement, DISH President and CEO Joseph P.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

As disruptive innovations enter the market with faster velocity and increased firepower, entrepreneurs are finding themselves dealing sooner and more intimately with the law. Sometimes, the innovation is just too new, creeping out consumers and lawmakers who hurriedly work to ban it. and urged Congress to outlaw the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. As Dell''s public statements have pronounced, these changes will reduce near-term profitability, raise operating and capital expenditures and involve a lot of risk.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He believed that it is not the CEO's job to find ways to make his or her employees happier. According to Ferose, the CEO's job is to give employees the freedom to test and deploy their own solutions that will in turn make them happier at work. Employees already know what will make them happy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. In “Change Through Persuasion” (2005), another piece coauthored with Michael Roberto, he departed from that norm, describing how Paul Levy, then CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, led a painful turnaround.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

And most CEOs who talked about using Design Thinking to remake their companies' culture appeared to choose globalization over innovation. Second, shifting focus to startups and entrepreneurship and away from big corporations can increase both the overall amount of disruptive innovation in the U.S.

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