Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

To be sure, entrepreneurs in highly specialized and technical industries need the knowledge that only users (doctors, lawyers, engineers, and the like) can provide. In fact, my colleagues and I have found that innovation thrives when expert users make up about 40% of an invention team. Are all ventures led by expert users doomed?

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Innovation Project Entrepreneur CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Does your business — should your innovators — have a muse? Why shouldn't design engineers have muses? While Clay Christensen is unlikely to publish "The Innovator's Muse" anytime soon, the empirical fact is that innovative organizations are desperate for sources of design differentiation.

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Innovation Fashion Christensen Creativity 15

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. Author of The Culture Engine & six other books. Humans Create Futures.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Hence, the Innovator's Dilemma: whether you innovate or not, you risk downward mobility. But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

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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. Nevertheless, we steadfastly supported the venture.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

” By emphasizing solutions as the engine of growth, Beinhocker and Hanauer wanted to cast capitalism as a force for prosperity (as the system that churns out the most constant stream of superior ones). We’d like to add a wrinkle to Beinhocker and Hanauer’s argument. Imaginative problem-solving is part of human nature.

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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. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems. How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology'

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” This was innovation all right – an innovation-induced wasteland. The picture surprised me. The thought gives me chills.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

And then we have Clay Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations : how a new technology that is initially not good enough for mainstream customers, initially gains a foothold with a set of low-end customers who are happy with a less expensive, “good enough” product. How much of it is driven by your tool suppliers?

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent. When First Officer Murdoch saw the iceberg, he put the engines in reverse and started turning away from the iceberg. It's What You Can't See. Keep Moving.

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Disruptive Innovation Wireless Christensen Film 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. When we meet with prospective investors, I don't speak much, and for good reason.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. 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. Innovation Strategy' Again and again this story repeated itself in the 19 th and 20 th centuries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

By contrast, disruption, and particularly demand-side disruption of the type put forward by Clay Christensen, is a force that relies on a steady process of picking off one customer at a time. Supply-side disruption arises when a new innovation or technology offers a better way of providing consumer value than the old technology does.

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Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years.

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever dig in on this topic , and they identify a number of reasons companies are being pressured to act with an increasing short-term focus. It makes no sense to let such finance-oriented, short-term pressures seep into the economy’s innovation engines.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. Clay Christensen’s research explores interdependent versus modular approaches to customer problems (pdf). Disruptive innovation Global business'

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. Clay Christensen''s research explores interdependent versus modular approaches to customer problems (pdf). Disruptive innovation Global business'

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

His approach to splitting out the old business from the new one is a textbook play out of Clay Christensen's prescription for dealing with the possibility of disruption. First, getting a handle on the angst requires understanding Netflix's (and Qwikster's) customers and, in Clay Christensen's language, the job they hire the companies to do.

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Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

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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

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 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive innovation is a parsimonious theory that explains many business failures.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The executive team of a consumer healthcare company had concluded that the rise of new competitors meant the company needed to up its innovation game. A creativity consultant said to signal that it was a new era in the organization, all of the top executives should dress up as innovation superheroes. The problem was clear.

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Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

We know that questioning can trigger innovative thinking. In a collaboration to determine just how disruptive leaders find these compelling questions, Professor Clayton Christensen and I conducted nearly 40 interviews with renowned global leaders. Disruptive innovation Leadership Organizational culture'

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. In The Innovator's Solution , HBS Professor Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor assert that, to their knowledge, "no company has ever been able to build an engine of disruptive growth and keep it running."

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 20

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Ive been spending some time lately with Dick Fosters fascinating and underappreciated 1986 book Innovation: The Attackers Advantage. Its a precursor  probably the most important precursor  to Clayton Christensens later work on disruptive innovation. And very few old media companies did.

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Technology Company Venture Capitalist Media 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. For engineers familiar with the concept of distributed intelligence in systems, this is an easily understandable, even obvious, form of structure.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

This insight is almost a tagline for the rise of online distributed innovation, commonly referred to as “crowd sourcing.” Working with Professor Clayton Christensen on the research that became “The Capitalist’s Dilemma ,” and taking a page from his book, we thought, How might we disrupt our own knowledge generation process?

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

I’m tired of all the “Woe is America” stuff – we’ve lost our innovation edge, we’re stagnating, etc. What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. He is a physician, educator, researcher, public advocate, innovator and very human.

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Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Core sectors.

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