article thumbnail

How to Foster Innovative Thinking at Your Company

CEO Insider

Innovation has a good reputation in the corporate world. Innovative ideas, an innovative culture, a history of innovation — these are all intangible assets that any business leader would love to have. It might mean something different to every executive you talk to, but surely everyone wants it.

article thumbnail

Blockbuster Becomes a Casualty of Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review

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.” homes had a broadband connection , but CEO Reed Hastings clearly saw the writing on the flat screen. million customers.

article thumbnail

How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. But to explain that, one needs to explain why some companies are so much better at developing software than others and why their innovations don’t seem to be diffusing to their smaller competitors the way Carr thought they inevitably would.