The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. The low latency of 5G is crucial to ensure that the arms can be operated as efficiently as possible, while the company believes it will reduce hardware and deployment costs by around 30%.

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Innovation Technology Operations CIO 84

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other. We operate in a spirit of fun and friendship.

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Guidelines Christensen Company Operations 50

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

In his latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel teams up with his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini to explore how organizations can better structure themselves for the modern age. Innovation is something organizations the world over are craving as they strive to cope with these most uncertain of times.

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Innovation Hamel Christensen Open-book 129

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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

Business Model 305

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

But this confidence served as a platform that allowed Andy to learn important things from every person — even Clayton Christensen. He was a powerful executive because he understood how organizations really operate and could harness this knowledge. He had a high level of self-esteem, of course. He was confident in his abilities.

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Christensen Incentives Price Course 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J. Spear McGraw-Hill (2009) The power of causal mechanisms that can drive a continuously self-improving system Clayton Christensen’s high praise of Steven Spear and this book is well-deserved.

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Books Review Operations System 75

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management. Managers, of course, are among the great rule inventors and implementers of the world. What if managers changed their approaches and got that set of rules right? We are not the first to point out to economists that management makes a difference.

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

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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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 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

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. ” Purpose, moreover, means for him social purpose.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 13

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. Everybody was expanding and growing and you had this really crazy stuff going on, people who didn’t know how to operate in a competitive market. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists. But they're notable because they are exceptions.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

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. Many minds make lighter work.

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Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

The question is understandable, but unfortunately it's based on deep misconceptions about how businesses need to operate in a world of constant change. As part of the fast-growing "managed print services" sector, the company shows organizations how to reduce the number of printers they use. But the present status quo.is

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Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. Exceed client expectations. Attract top talent. Measure success.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. More importantly, managers need to monitor the tool innovation roadmap.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Practitioners have robust tools to discover opportunities to innovate, design, and execute experiments to address key strategic uncertainty; to create underlying systems to enable innovation in their organization; and to manage the tension between operating today's business and creating tomorrow's businesses.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

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. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

The Wall Street Journal article noted that Innosight founder Clayton Christensen favors three categories of innovation: efficiency (doing the same thing faster or cheaper), sustaining (making current solutions better), disruptive (transforming complicated solutions into simple, accessible, affordable ones). It is hard work.

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Innovation Christensen Definition Idea Generation 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

After Tuesday, when News management told 60% of its editorial staffers, including several old friends of mine, that they were being fired , I think I can finally and conclusively forget about that little dream. And even if they'd succeeded, their news operations would be endangered anyway.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Business Model Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. They wind up maintaining course without appropriately considering emerging risks, debating alternative scenarios, or exploring new courses of action.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

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. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

That''s partly because, as Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman, and Willy Shih wrote in the 2008 HBR article "Innovation Killers," standard financial metrics make new investments look much less attractive than existing business lines. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% Scripps 6.9%

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . If you excel in one of these areas, you can always get a well-paying job doing interesting work — at startups or established firms.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

“If you’re the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you’re laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group,” Grazer writes in his book, A Curious Mind. In many cases, managers and top executives have risen through the ranks by providing fixes and solutions, not by asking questions.

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Christensen Open-book CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

They were all ignored by the wireless operator, who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages and by the crew, who were focused on breaking the speed record. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent.

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Disruptive Innovation Wireless Christensen Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

And Indian mobile phone provider Bharti Airtel uses IBM to manage its computer systems and Ericsson to operate its cell tower infrastructure. The second is increased risk of coordination and integration, such as managing service level agreements and handoffs. Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. And some superstars have very innovation-friendly experience, such as launching a new product, opening up an office in an emerging market, or operating in a constrained environment. Look for the aliens.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13