Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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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. Probably not.

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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?

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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. 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

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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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. One of the articles reached millions of readers through one of the internet's most respected technology blogs. But the path of disruption is not.

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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. However, it will not succeed here.

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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. They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. It didn't work.

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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

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon).

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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

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. This is the transformational and dramatic effect of a superior technology entering an industry. Tesla, Nespresso, and Geox are current successful examples of such high-end disruptions. Goodrich, and General Tire).

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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

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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. ” 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. They are supply-side architectural innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

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. At the Education Innovation Summit the only university endowment in attendance was the University of Texas‘s UTIMCO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” 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.

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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

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

DECEMBER 29, 2010

But just like Autotune and other technologies that allow passable music talents to turn into global powerhouses, lower costs and increased understanding of the process of innovation can allow anyone to be a competent entrepreneur. That point led to spirited discussion with my VC friends.

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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

JUNE 21, 2017

Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Pathbreaking innovations never arrive fully formed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Best known as the technology behind bitcoin, blockchain enables a ledger of transactions to be shared across a network of participants.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

My family and I have a bunch of Apple devices, a WiFi network built around an Apple Time Machine, and not enough technological savvy (or time) to figure out workarounds. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Consider the following examples: The #1 Management Thinker on the Thinkers 50 list is Clay Christensen , Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma , which introduced the idea of disruptive innovation. Fourth, a focus on developing leaders. of the U.S.

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