Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

The authors point out that present-forward thinking innovation at most organizations is mostly incremental improvements to what they are already doing. These needed capabilities become your innovation portfolio. Set up an organizational model that protects breakthrough innovation teams from the countervailing influences of the core.

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Christensen Innovation Learning-by-Doing Strategic Planning 399

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 316

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists. Some can, but many cannot.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

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

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” This was innovation all right – an innovation-induced wasteland. The picture surprised me. The thought gives me chills.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

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. But that doesn’t really explain its success. That’s the secret to its success. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF.

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Hotels Christensen Competitive Advantage Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

But when you combine Amazon's success with its resolute unwillingness to take financial markets too seriously, the result is an amazing thing to see. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. Most turn out not to. With Amazon, though, nobody emphasizes EPS.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9