Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

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. Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years. It's media disintermediation at work!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity. Resistance from the Customer.

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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. Music to any innovator's ears.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. You call it this big bang disruption. DAVID: Yeah.

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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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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. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic. Test to learn.

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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

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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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. But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too. Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.".

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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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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. Simply put, the argument for "high-end" disruption is a bad one. Disruption shouldn't be a term used to describe any successful innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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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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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. Such a dynamic is antithetical to effective innovation.

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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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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. Steve Jobs said, "innovation requires a thousand no's."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. 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."). Then, the bar goes up.

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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

APRIL 11, 2014

In much of the 20 th century, technological innovation produced products that had plenty of room for improvement, opening up opportunities for high-end disruption. Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. Innovation Strategy' This went on in most industries until about the 1980s.

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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. How much of it is driven by your tool suppliers?

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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 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

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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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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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. For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

A company makes the strategic decision to create a group dedicated to the creation of innovative growth businesses. 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. Innovation muscles can be built.

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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 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation. They lock themselves into one type of strategy and say, “This is how we innovate.”

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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