Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). ” One in ancestry and the other in drug development.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Fisher presents a very simple and logical framework for choosing the right supplier – link innovative products with what he calls a “responsive” supply chain, and functional products with “efficient” supply chain. Resistance from the Customer. The customers are in the drivers seat, no doubt about it.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. The vast, vast majority of these are for software development of one sort or another to support the streaming business.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2020

Understanding these pieces is critical for strategy teams, product development units, and organizational leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Through the past 15 years my colleagues and I have wrestled with disruption in many contexts. That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. First, disruption directs you to look in places you might otherwise ignore.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. Because when these innovations show up, they are better and cheaper right from the start. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. Often when pundits suggest the presence of "high-end" disruptions, what they're really witnessing is a very effective disruption by a better alternative.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation. Today's health-care industry screams for disruption. But disruption solves the more fundamental question: How do we make health care affordable? xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D.,

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation. The process of disruption follows a predictable pattern. The disruptive innovator first targets a market segment that embraces those tradeoffs and builds a business model around simplicity and affordability.

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Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation Christensen Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. By Dick Grote.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

As we grew, I knew it would be very difficult to continue to create the breakthrough innovations that had led to Medtronic's high growth rate, which had exceeded 18% per annum for a decade. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

But innovation theory can provide a crystal ball; theory could have predicted iTunes' success and it's currently predicting Spotify's success. To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. However, it will not succeed here.

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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. With all this learning by doing, setbacks will be inevitable.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

The general way around this problem seems simple enough — have a process by which you evaluate ideas in different ways at different stages of development (most call this a "stage-gate process."). Endless pre-meetings crowd out action-based learning. Next week's post will apply lessons from this approach to large corporations.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Clayton Christensen first documented this phenomenon in his study of the disk drive industry , and found that new companies targeting existing customers succeeded 6% of the time, while new companies that targeted non-consumers succeeded 37% of the time. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. So many industries have in fact reached this point that, as things stand in the 21 st century, we know very little about when a high-end disruption will succeed. Rather, it has developed an entirely new business model to profitably exploit a new, superior technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

It’s expensive, but you agree to pay an innovation premium because you appreciate that in innovation clusters the search for talent is fierce. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

A new business model may turn on designing a new product for an unmet need or on a process innovation. ” Firmly in the “a business model is really a set of assumptions or hypotheses” camp is Alex Osterwalder, who has developed what is arguably the most comprehensive template on which to construct those hypotheses.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

.” That isn’t very specific but I think we can take it to mean that Ford is handling disruption by investing in a separate business unit. This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. As Ford CEO, Mark Fields, explained to The Verge : “Our approach is to first disrupt ourselves.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. Sometimes that''s political influence and hometown boosterism, as with the local developer and hotelier who bought San Diego''s daily paper.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

(See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. For universities, joining the league of innovation may require casting aside the firewall between endowment money and innovation in education.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years. Develop a shared innovation philosophy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

All the techniques and mental tricks executives develop over time to run established businesses can be completely counter to what is needed to successfully innovate. If they don't, but they have time to develop them, that might be OK. If they don't and you are about to enter the Stanley Cup finals, be prepared for a bruising. *

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

In this month's HBR magazine , Clayton Christensen and I explained how corporate executives and strategists can use a framework to evaluate the speed and scope of disruption. The article, Surviving Disruption, outlines how not all waves of disruption are uniform. Last week, I did something I never, ever, do.

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Retail Apparel Christensen Discount 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Finally, we need to develop training programs that give leaders the necessary skills to master the paradoxes that increasingly appear on management's agenda. One book that I'm looking forward to reading next year on this topic is Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton Christensen's work on The Innovator's DNA.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption. The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. See More Videos > See More Videos > Disruptive innovation. When that happens, innovating your products won’t help — you have to innovate your business model. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

But without good options for doing that, I ended up doing nothing – what Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen calls “non consumption.” ” But as Christensen observes, finding pockets of non consumption is a ripe opportunity for innovation.

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