N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. Does your organization focus more on process than success? Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 316

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. That's not to say that there haven't been success stories. 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 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. 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. Or, when they emphasize earnings, it's in the opposite direction from what Christensen's worried about.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

They can be wildly successful, but they can also crash and burn. Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage. Given AmEx’s operations, consumer base, and resources, it’s well positioned to do so. Clearly, social initiatives are not a panacea. Let me explain.

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