N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year? While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities.

Business Model 338

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 338

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists. Some can, but many cannot.

Innovation 15

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.

Disruptive Innovation 14

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.

Advertising 8

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.

Six Sigma 8

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.

Training 9

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

More recently, Clayton Christensen has outlined how managers’ acquired habits in allocating capital are putting capitalism itself at risk. For more information, see the conference homepage. Economy Leadership'

Management 11

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11