Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The pace of innovation is still fast, they say, and we can still expect plenty of technological breakthroughs capable of producing extremely high returns. It’s a lively debate, but here’s the perspective that isn’t being voiced: There’s more to progress than technological innovation. We can make new tools, and we can make new rules.

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

On a recent business trip to London, I surprised the conference organizers by turning down the opportunity to stay at the posh hotel hosting the conference in favor of a rather modest Airbnb flat. That is the foundation of successful innovation. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. The hotel was clearly much more luxurious.

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Hotels Christensen Competitive Advantage Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

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. With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS. After that the No.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

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. 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. Operations Organizational culture'

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation. They lock themselves into one type of strategy and say, “This is how we innovate.”

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

. • Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. On the conference call, Szkutak explained that significant capacity investments are being made in distribution centers so Amazon can continue to grow its core retail business. You typically don't get misunderstood for sustaining innovation.".

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

I'd come down to New York for HSM's World Innovation Forum. The first day of the conference, customer service guru and Zappos chief Tony Hsieh gave his spiel about Zappos being a service company that just happened to sell shoes. We got his book, Delivering Happiness , free in our conference bags. It was so simple.

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Conference Mission Statement Christensen Rogers 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. 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

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

I’m tired of all the “Woe is America” stuff – we’ve lost our innovation edge, we’re stagnating, etc. What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. He is a physician, educator, researcher, public advocate, innovator and very human.

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Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

So is iTunes Radio an innovation? 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. Sounds great, I guess, and probably even innovative. Of course not: It''s a Rhapsody/Pandora/Spotify copycat.

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Schiller Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Now consider the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) , an organization that seeks to bring cutting edge innovation techniques to social initiatives, many of which are similar to those Pepsi Refresh sought to promote. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. Harley Davidson has its group rides.

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