Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

"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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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

Unearth the unmet needs – Clayton Christensen famously refers to this as ‘jobs to be done’, and it’s a detailed understanding of just what it is your customers are trying to achieve. It’s quite probable that we can repurpose our capabilities to thrive in new ways, if only we begin looking.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. Saul urges us to also create a shared operating model on HOW value will be delivered. A shared operating model enables people to “ collaborate with a shared purpose for value delivery.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Disruptive Innovation (per the Christensen model) generally takes place in an industry dominated by an oligopoly and having an unserved segment ( towards the lower end in terms of profit margins and product capability) which attains visibility as a result of technological expansion in what is most of the time, a non-related field.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But in industrial deployments, think 5G powered ports, mines, and factories, operations can re-configure the signal to support even faster upload speeds,” Brian Chamberlin, Executive Advisor, Huawei Carrier Marketing, says. “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks.

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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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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. For the everyday student of business history, this might be unsurprising.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Teams are meant to work collaboratively, which means to walk-through, debate, and likely reshape the idea before making a call. Resistance from the Supplier.

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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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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. Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. I hope Christensen is right, but I fear that Shirky may be. But I dont have to. .

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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

MAY 21, 2015

The primary target of Lepore’s attack was Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, whose groundbreaking book, The Innovator’s Dilemma coined the term disruptive technology (later transformed into disruptive innovation ). However, Lepore does Christensen’s work a tremendous disservice.

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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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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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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. In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.".

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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. Some can, but many cannot.

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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 the great guru on innovation Clayton Christensen has said, we base our thinking on "an assumption that the status quo in the business will maintain itself into the future.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Of course, the ideas that corporations must earn their “license to operate” and serve stakeholders that go far beyond shareholders are not new.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast.

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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. How do you survive such a seemingly unending series of waves?

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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. And it's absolutely necessary.

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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. Measure success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Businesses have a variety of social responsibilities, but the essential one—and the main reason that private enterprise is given license to operate—is to innovate. We’d like to add a wrinkle to Beinhocker and Hanauer’s argument. No need to wait for Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

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. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock. Insight Center.

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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).

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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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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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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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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.

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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%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen identify five "discovery skills" that make for innovative mindsets: associating, questioning, observing, experimenting, and networking. Pete Maulik is Chief Operating Officer and Head of Commercial Strategy at Fahrenheit 212 , an innovation consultancy based in New York.

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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.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Christensen. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer.

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