Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development. The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market.

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Uncertainty Organization Christensen Tactics 214

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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Kleiner Schein Blog McKinsey 80

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 3, 2015

The crisis was an eye opener for many leaders who were guilty of measuring success in monetary terms. What leaders need to do is to look inward to measure success as a leader and most importantly, a human instead of looking for external measures of success. This is a guest post by Ali Jafri.

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Leadership Short-term Long-term Self-aware 120

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

Explore your conclusions – It’s no good believing your solution will find success in the market if you haven’t actually spoken to customers to find out. Focus on outcomes – Last, but not least, is to focus on what Clayton Christensen would refer to as the job the customer is trying to do.

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Entrepreneur Agility Document FAQ 132

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. Would you like to meet my team? Amy Cuddy – She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history.

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). Who will benefit from the success of the team? 7: Implementation – getting work done; When working on teams what is successful in keeping the work relevant to the team and people on the team? 1 = What is relevant to people on the team. How will they benefit?

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Motivation Team Team Building Christensen 139

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

One of the more interesting applications has been “StockCity”, which was developed by Fidelity International to allow traders and investors to traverse a fully 3D virtual city, with buildings representing each stock and complete with pertinent data about that company. Will the metaverse fare better?

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 114

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 316

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Only those who are able to reinvent themselves, imagining new solutions, and developing new products and services to be relevant in the future will be poised to thrive. Who better to quote in this instance than the late, great, Clayton Christensen who famously answered this question in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Innovation Drucker Supply Chain Influence 104

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In the two decades since the institution was forged, they believe that the foundations for success have been established, with the centrepiece being the Education City district that houses the educational, scientific and entrepreneurial efforts of the city. Unlocking human potential. Institutional advantage. Curating inspiration.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 90

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Or, maybe you’re focused on personal development and want to find the best content online to help you grow as a leader. of the Center for the Development of Evangelical Leadership @GCTS_Charlotte. Obsessed with community development. Zondervan Author.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. In response, I usually tell the following story.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” Christensen, Raynor, and McDonald argue that Uber is not disruptive because it offers neither a low-end service, nor a new market. Uber doesn’t. ” I agree!

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Disruptive Innovation Definition Innovation Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In January 1980, Harvard's Ted Levitt wrote an article titled " Marketing Success Through Differentiation of Anything." Levitt proclaimed that the most successful differentiation was achieved through a set of unexpected features; features consumers had no idea they wanted, but ultimately would consider invaluable.

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Levitt Succession Wireless Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation? The rest, of course, is history.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. A related possibility is that a majority of venture capitalists use flawed theories of startup success. So people hoping to fly created large feathered wings.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

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. What you can know is that the markets for disruptive innovations are unpredictable, and therefore your initial strategy for entering a market will be wrong," writes Christensen. STOP IT.".

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. A related possibility is that a majority of venture capitalists use flawed theories of startup success. So people hoping to fly created large feathered wings.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. And unlike the very few successful companies that scaled before they were profitable (think Facebook or Amazon), Groupon's business model does not benefit from significant network effects.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

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. The key to its phenomenal success over the past decade, though, has been — to use Christensen''s terminology again — disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

And they've been hugely successful. Academics offer up at least three answers: Clayton Christensen asserts that a single organization can't house two competing systems; companies seeking to drive disruptive growth therefore need to create spinoff organizations. That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home," she said.

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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. For Clayton Christensen, this is a basic flaw of incumbency. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. By external standards I was highly successful, but inside I was deeply unhappy. I was losing my way. That is much easier said than done.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 14

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. Disruption shouldn't be a term used to describe any successful innovation. Over the course of the past few weeks, two articles crossed my desk touching on this issue.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I recently asked a group of successful professional women to list their favorite books about entrepreneurship, the list skewed largely male. To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. John's picks, however, are not an anomaly among men, or even really among women. And that is a problem.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 12

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

JULY 22, 2011

It is walking, talking, and continuing to pretend it's alive, but Spotify , Europe's outrageously successful streaming music product, has just shown us the future. But innovation theory can provide a crystal ball; theory could have predicted iTunes' success and it's currently predicting Spotify's success.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

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. I can't off the top of my head think of any huge successes of that ilk in the media world, though (can you?).

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Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. ” [Ford Smart Mobility’s] role is to design, develop, build, invest, and grow these mobility services. Here is the problem: none of the three disruptors I have outlined here are traditional Christensen-style innovations.

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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. She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

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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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord. Success and happiness pose a bigger threat to businesses than a moderate degree of dissatisfaction.

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Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Many of you know of Clay Christensen's iconic work the Innovators Dilemma. This change is just as threatening to established businesses as the process competitors Christensen identified, and just as difficult to respond to. Perhaps the new model for a successful business should be "Nimble." Everything. Disrupting How We Work.

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Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We don’t know enough of its finances to know precisely how successful it has been, but with tens of millions of viewers and sponsorship packages north of $2 million, it is a good bet that ESPN has done well on its bet. Is the X games different? The process of disruption follows a predictable pattern. The X Games clearly succeed here.

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Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation Christensen Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

But the company had almost failed several times, and even success was brutal. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . In financial terms, focuses expertise is a call option on other careers, and it increases your chance of startup success, to boot. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

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