Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. That will require executives of health care providers and the entire medical community to embrace, at scale, four pillars of care.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

But their way of thinking about prosperity also offers direction for any managers who want to work harder to make the world better off: your mission is to imagine, develop, and launch more life-improving solutions, especially the kinds of goods and services that improve ordinary people’s lives.

Christensen 12

Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

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.

GDP 12

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. A second misconception about digital disruption is that new technology will inevitably substitute old technology, rendering it obsolete. Network effects: The winner does not always take all. Complements are not substitutes.

McCallum 12

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Imagine a Future Where Africa Leapfrogs Developed Economies. How Netflix Reinvented HR.

Management 18

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 18

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.

Christensen 8

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. 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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions. ” One in ancestry and the other in drug development.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. The technology was great. They executed on their plans well.

Ries 10

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. ” We do not execute a central mandate (e.g., Christensen, Dina Wang, and Derek van Bever predicted the disruption of elite consulting firms. Our group welcomes the competition.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Fortunately, the organizations that took the effort to truly understand the value of their data were able to execute appropriately. Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. This is easier said than done.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

You see, while creativity is a clearly a valuable asset, unbridled creativity where random, disparate ideas abound outside of a sound decisioning and execution framework will create distraction and chaos much more often than they will lead to innovation. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

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. or you might not.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Yet these executives also had an outsider role where they worked on an emerging growth business or consciously explored external opportunities, giving them critical distance from the core. He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

In Clay Christensen''s words, customers "hire" products or other solutions because they have a specific job to fulfil, not because they belong to a certain segment. This then allows the development of specific solutions for each segment. For each segment, there may be only three or four jobs to be done that are crucial.

Ramaswamy 8

Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, as climate policy expert Aimee Christensen pointed out to me, “the recent momentum going into Paris is primarily driven by the improving economics of action (e.g., And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business models, the questions they face are questions of unprecedented uncertainty, where past experience may be no help. Our favorite way to think of this is in terms of what Clay Christensen has famously called the “ job-to-be-done.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

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. “They saved $999,000 and ate the clams for dinner,” the executive told me. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation.

Innovation 21

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

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. This led to the HR VP brokering a meeting with the CEO and an invitation to make a formal presentation to the Executive Committee. Executing on Innovation.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. In doing research for my book , I found that companies who are attracting buyers in today's hyper-connected world are developing new approaches and competencies that focus on one thing: customers. Find your customer product developers. out of 5 to 4.5.

CEO 8

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.”

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

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.

Schiller 9

Schiller Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen 9

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The 12 square km Education City is home to a wide range of K12 and higher education facilities, including seven international campuses from institutions such as Northwestern, Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon universities, with HEC Paris then offering executive MBAs from its campus in West Bay. Curating inspiration.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 78