LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. 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. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. It always has.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 11

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Blog Project Review Execution 89

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. 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. Stop Requiring College Degrees.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 21

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”. So why open the floodgates?

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The pace of innovation is still fast, they say, and we can still expect plenty of technological breakthroughs capable of producing extremely high returns. It’s a lively debate, but here’s the perspective that isn’t being voiced: There’s more to progress than technological innovation. We can make new tools, and we can make new rules.

Management 14

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” Dell was responding to a 2015 PwC survey of more than a thousand CEOs, a number of whom cited “curiosity” and “open-mindedness” as leadership traits that are becoming increasingly critical in challenging times. replied , “I would place my bet on curiosity.”

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Christensen Open-book CEO Entrepreneur 8

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

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. But you know, my leadership team is smart. The Christensen doctrine helped Dayton-Hudson create Target, Hewlett-Packard succeed in inkjet printing, and Qantas create its discount JetStar airline.

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Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

What leadership position — perhaps that no one else wants — can you leverage to build connections and a solid professional reputation? A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. Maxwell Wessel. Whitney Johnson.

Advice 15

Advice Learning-by-Doing Career Open-book 15

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. Within several weeks, the effort had won enough new projects to make the layoffs unnecessary. The pace of change must also be deliberate and well-orchestrated.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8