Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Corporations commit the LeBron-on-ice fallacy all the time. And some superstars have very innovation-friendly experience, such as launching a new product, opening up an office in an emerging market, or operating in a constrained environment. But he wouldn't necessarily be world-class. It starts innocently. Look for the aliens.

Sports 13

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. 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.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

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dynamics that include a wish for group harmony, pressures for conformity, increased commitment to ill-advised or outdated strategies, and punishment of dissenters.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

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. While developing expertise is the most certain way to reduce entrepreneurial risk, many other strategies exist: Process — Using the right processes to deal with market uncertainty (e.g.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

And as Clayton Christensen wrote in a recent Nieman Report , those consumers are focused on getting jobs done. A three-minute YouTube video here and there does not represent a commitment to content. There's a perfect storm building that will give us all the chance to redeem ourselves, and change the course of advertising forever.

Advertising 10

Advertising Media Content Brand 10

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 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. By not having achieved product-market fit anywhere, and never having developed strong processes to ensure standardized operations, a startup in many senses resembles a speedboat. Patient capital. But you how do you get there?

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. The right question is not whether its time to split HR, but rather why are leaders so much less sophisticated about talent than about financial capital?

Charan 13

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The time commitment for Words With Friends or Fruit Ninja is significantly less than the time commitment to, say, Call of Duty, as is the upfront cost. To survive disruption, console makers need to find an "extendable core" and integrate around it, a concept explored in "Surviving Disruption" by Max Wessel and Clay Christensen.

Industry 8

Industry Franchising Christensen System 8