N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 338

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change.

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Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. For more information, see the conference homepage.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. Or, when they emphasize earnings, it's in the opposite direction from what Christensen's worried about. Most turn out not to.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. Moreover, instead of conferring authority, the hierarchy establishes an unambiguous sequence of levels of accountability.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. The key to its phenomenal success over the past decade, though, has been — to use Christensen''s terminology again — disruptive innovation.

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Schiller Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen 9