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.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14

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.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

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.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

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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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

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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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

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.

Kaplan 12

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. More >>.

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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. They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

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

JANUARY 3, 2012

Managers working on ideas discover that detailed PowerPoint documents are their biggest enemy, because the details act as bait for nit-picking devil's advocates. Applying this same discipline to nascent opportunities in new spaces can be disastrous. Endless pre-meetings crowd out action-based learning. Then, the bar goes up.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

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.

Books 13

Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

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.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock. But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

’ It also answers the fundamental questions every manager must ask: How do we make money in this business? A new business model may turn on designing a new product for an unmet need or on a process innovation. Introducing a better business model into an existing market is the definition of a disruptive innovation.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

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.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 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.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

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. It''s partly because managers of well-moated companies tend to turn complacent — or just don''t need much skill to run such a business in the first place.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 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. Patient capital.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. More focus must go to solving the first mile problem.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

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.

Retail 9

Retail Apparel Christensen Discount 9

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. *

Sports 13

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

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.

Price 9

Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

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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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

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. Too often, organizations are myopic.

Productivity 10

Productivity Products Christensen Power 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. After all, Lafley's bent is to manage innovation in a systematic, disciplined way.

Innovation 15

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

While management often espouses the notion that good ideas can come from everywhere, in practice there are "thinkers" who create strategies and designated "doers" who execute those strategies. Disrupting How We Work. Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. What could you do together?

Christensen 16

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. Those paths were developed by people who rely on process and rules to tame the chaos that is life. Career planning Managing yourself Personal effectiveness'

Advice 12

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In fact, one of my clients recently asked me, not at all unkindly, "What drives so many Mormons to be management thought-leaders?" Certainly, it is interesting to note how many Mormons have played an active role in shaping modern management theory. She took me by surprise when she listed quite a number off the top of her head.

Management 9

Management Covey Ulrich Christensen 9