Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job. At a recent industry conference, Bill Reichert , managing director of Garage Technology Ventures opined, "VCs do not invest with their brains.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

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

Career 19

Career Christensen Hedge Short-term 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. Consider the management consulting industry. It would be terribly naïve to assume that nothing in your business will need to change.

McCallum 12

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 12

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.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

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?” The picture surprised me. We’d been asked to wear clothes that represented artifacts from the future.

Advertising 9

Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

It was clearly a superior method of managing commerce. Clay Christensen used to advise auto manufacturers to focus on their customers’ jobs-to-be-done, understanding when their customers were looking for mobile offices and when they wanted family transport vehicles. It made trips that could last months possible in just days.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

“It’s important to enjoy spending time with your colleagues and your manager,” says Dillon. “You might try to convince your manager to let you work remotely for a month,” he says. “I’ve never known many managers to say no to people offering to help out.” Christensen.

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

One important reason why there are so many very badly managed firms in the world today is the widespread belief that management should be the responsibility of a few people at the top. The future of corporations may therefore depend on the rise of distributed forms of management, such as holacracy. Don’t cringe.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

That’s what makes the annual BIF conference so important: 30 plus stories of amazing, cool, disruptive, transformative innovation models. Experiment : In performance management, process, quality, workflow, customer satisfaction, etc., It’s just not in the mainstream media. Lesson: You can’t build on broken.

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124