Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Managers in established firms should therefore try to reset market expectations through proactive and carefully calibrated communications to investors before they pursue digital innovations.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Practitioners have robust tools to discover opportunities to innovate, design, and execute experiments to address key strategic uncertainty; to create underlying systems to enable innovation in their organization; and to manage the tension between operating today's business and creating tomorrow's businesses. And it's absolutely necessary.

Innovation 11

Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This time, nearly every country is entering the discussions with a legitimate commitment to cut carbon. And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago. What will be the likely outcome out of the talks? For example, the U.S.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. Managing the transition. There are indications that this is happening.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Commitment is important, but so is flexibility and intelligent experimentation. Ask your manager for a chance to lead a new business. Like Clayton Christensen did , spend an hour a day thinking about what things you're passionate about. Start experimenting. Try new things; try hard things. Speak at an industry conference.

Career 19

Career Christensen Hedge Short-term 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Groupthink happens because of basic social and interpersonal dynamics that include a wish for group harmony, pressures for conformity, increased commitment to ill-advised or outdated strategies, and punishment of dissenters. Here’s what we should be taking far more seriously, and here’s how we should respond.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

But they worry about “flexibility stigma”—the likelihood that they’ll be labeled less than fully committed to work if they avail themselves of arrangements like flex time and paternity leave — and as a result suffer negative job and career consequences. So what should managers do? The reason? For the U.S.

Survey 8

Survey Christensen Globalization Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

His approach to splitting out the old business from the new one is a textbook play out of Clay Christensen's prescription for dealing with the possibility of disruption. First, getting a handle on the angst requires understanding Netflix's (and Qwikster's) customers and, in Clay Christensen's language, the job they hire the companies to do.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Alternatively, if you’re committed to founding a company immediately, pick an area of specialization up front and craft your job to emphasize that domain.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Corporations commit the LeBron-on-ice fallacy all the time. See specifically High Flyers by Morgan McCall, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, The Innovator's DNA by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton Christensen, and recent research from Saras Sarasvathy from the Darden School of Business. It starts innocently.

Sports 13

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom. Because that's the point.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But it’s familiar territory to innovators, who’ve spent decades wrestling with the problem of how to manage uncertainty when there is little to guide them in getting their new offering to a new audience or market. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. Patient capital. But you how do you get there? You can''t just ask for it.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. But that was never Christensen’s intent.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

Charan 13

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

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. Cook founded Intuit 30 years ago, committed to improving people’s lives. He flew down to meet with the TurboTax team and talk about this vision.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

She''s is a co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, Clayton Christensen''s investment firm, and the author of Dare-Dream-Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream. They''re the co-founders and managing partners of Isis Associates and authors of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.

Advice 12

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

If you’re a manager and care seriously about speed, you’ll need to tell your people you’re willing to accept the tradeoffs. Wrestle with complexity, yes, but frame and commit to a decision that’s simple enough for everyone to understand and act on. Meanwhile, the world changes. Reid did this with me.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Christensen Information 8