Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). What is the best way to disrupt a market?

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

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. But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

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. But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? How do you avoid wasting millions, if not billions, on projects destined for failure? If they'd been able to pay the same amount for different packaging on the open market, what would the outcome have been? He was completely right.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. In their 2009 award-winning Harvard Business Review article, " The Innovator's DNA " (soon to be a book ), Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen discussed how successful innovators tend to be careful observers.

Innovation 15

Innovation Licensing Christensen Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Conversely, when teams and organizations enjoy too much harmony, they will gravitate toward inaction and complacency, which, as Clayton Christensen noted 20 years ago in The Innovator’s Dilemma , will breed decline and extinction.

Creativity 13

Creativity Team Christensen Innovation 13

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. Within that structure, questioning by employees can be perceived as a challenge to authority. So why open the floodgates?

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As Clay Christensen and colleagues point out in the latest issue of HBR , the consulting industry is ripe for disruption. Here’s a quick (disguised) example: The head of a large consumer products division felt that one of the keys to future growth would be a greater focus on emerging markets.

Consultative 8

Consultative Definition Christensen Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Unhappily shocked by Sputnik''s unexpected 1957 success, President Eisenhower quickly pushed the Pentagon to establish the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This question from a marketing perspective was recently explored on this site.). Its ostensible mission: " to prevent technological surprise to the U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation Christensen Brand Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

John Maynard Keynes very famously proposed that the actions of rational agents in a market were akin to a fictional newspaper contest , where entrants were asked to pick who, out of a set of six women, was most beautiful. The financial markets put pressure on you to generate the type of returns they’re looking for: quarterly results.

Finance 10

Finance Short-term Long-term Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. How can the United States achieve a better record in the future? The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. Some may have short onboarding programs for new employees; at best some multinational companies will budget similar training budgets as in their developed market businesses.

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 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. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

Innovation 9

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He was not your standard internet entrepreneur — the student presenting was pitching a project to increase sub-Saharan farm income, by helping farmers shift from traditional crops to rubber trees. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Patient capital.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Blog 384

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

As we moved from idea to execution, I asked another friend to take a key role in the project. When doing a deal, I now spell out the rules of engagement early on, and hew closely, if not religiously, to the mantra of Clayton Christensen , our managing partner at Rose Park Advisors — "patient for growth, impatient for profits."

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But it’s familiar territory to innovators, who’ve spent decades wrestling with the problem of how to manage uncertainty when there is little to guide them in getting their new offering to a new audience or market. 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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Identify target customers by casting a wide net across potential users , and performing customer interviews to establish their “jobs to be done” (as Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen says). Test user perceptions with a range of potential data offerings. Frame up realistic aspirations for monetization.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

Innovation 21

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 21

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As Clayton Christensen and many others have demonstrated , the management practices prevailing in most companies tend to stifle any dialogue on ideas that arise from the shop floor or the front line. Within several weeks, the effort had won enough new projects to make the layoffs unnecessary.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Executives often get fooled by inspiring stories of engineers at companies like 3M or Google coming up with germs of ideas in the 15-20% of their time they allocate to side projects. Problems can range from entering new markets to addressing everyday concerns such as low employee engagement.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

That's essential to tweaking products and marketing campaigns — or overhauling them when necessary. The technology (browser-based apps and "cloud" infrastructure) for these apps didn't exist five years ago, according to Steve Christensen, CEO of Babbleware.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Some of the many cool things Jon Cropper has done includes helping MTV move into Asia, Latin America and South Africa, working with (the) Quincy Jones, and heading up Nissan North America’s youth and multicultural marketing (know the “Shift_expectations” ads?). His theme was Generosity feeds the Soul.

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

These facilities help to fulfil the ultimate ambition of the project to create good jobs for the citizens of Qatar by equipping them with the skills they need to thrive in the future of work. The international universities are complemented by Qatar’s own Hamad Bin Khalifa University which offers a range of research and graduate programs.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78