The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

It’s a rigid system whereby the bus drivers are largely judged not on the satisfaction of the passenger, but on their ability to complete the route as prescribed. Focus on outcomes – Last, but not least, is to focus on what Clayton Christensen would refer to as the job the customer is trying to do.

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Entrepreneur Agility Document FAQ 131

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

You can adjust the system they work within meaning the environment, work itself, rewards and tasks , management , etc… By adjusting the system of work you will adjust the behaviors and hopefully increase motivation. The responses you gather are the system-that-drives motivation from the team. How can I stay motivated?

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Motivation Team Team Building Christensen 139

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen,2002) Wikipedia. In work it is the manager ; who has control of the system. Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T.

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Productivity Products Christensen Delegation 95

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Instead, a mere three seconds after the earthquake struck, a sophisticated early warning system kicked in. Corporations should have early warning systems to detect emerging competitive threats that have long-term potential to affect their business. Good early warning systems provide the data to help inform these decisions.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. Often innovative solutions can be found if you expand the scope of what you see as the system. The book lays out a Theory of Jobs to be Done in a very compelling way.

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Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

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. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

We also need to trust systems. Efficient systems are great at dealing with complicated things – things that have many parts and sequences, but they fall flat dealing with complex systems, which is most of world today. CS : Yes, I didn’t need to trust them personally, just professionally.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

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. The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J.

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Books Review Operations System 75

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care. Tightly align training, systems, and protocols throughout the medical community to ensure more consistent care and diagnoses, eliminating variations related to the type of imaging or testing performed, who performed it, or who read the results.

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Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance. Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas.

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Creativity Consultative CEO System 70

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

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. The industry has unquestionably helped to support the formation of world-changing companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, and countless others.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns. The industry has unquestionably helped to support the formation of world-changing companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, and countless others.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

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.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. Initially, cell phone guidance was pretty crummy when compared with the GPS systems offered by Garmin or TomTom. Take for instance, GPS mapping on cell phones.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done. But this is the nature of what Professor Christensen calls low-end disruption. And though Spotify is compatible with a handful of important devices, iTunes proliferates.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

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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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For me and many other physicians, reading " Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care " by Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy in the September-October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review was like having a light turned on.

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Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Christensen 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Regulations and reimbursement systems currently trap in high-cost venues much care that could be provided in lower-cost, more convenient business models. xlv-xlvi by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman M.D., Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School. Excerpted and adapted from The Innovator's Prescription, pp.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook. Here is the problem: none of the three disruptors I have outlined here are traditional Christensen-style innovations. Put simply, if disruption is coming from a new way of putting the parts of the system together, the solution cannot be to keep them separate.

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Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

To help strategists understand how that works Clay Christensen presented a particular take on the matter in “ In Reinventing Your Business Model ” designed to make it easier to work out how a new entrant’s business model might disrupt yours.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

It’s one way to survive in a system that doesn’t make sense. Clay Christensen clarifies his theory. The Best-Performing CEOs in the World. A CEO from Denmark kicked Jeff Bezos out of the top spot. Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks. The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis.

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Article Christensen Disruptive Innovation Comparison 8

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). No need to wait for Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

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Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 12

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).

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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Understanding their disappointing performance is particularly important given that retail clinics are viewed as the prototypical example of how disruptive innovation can change the health care system for the better. Reasons for the Limited Impact. Ultimately, as long as the U.S.

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Health Care Retail Disruptive Innovation Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Even General Motors, which had a bird’s eye view of the Toyota Production System from its joint venture with Toyota at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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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GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Clayton Christensen first documented this phenomenon in his study of the disk drive industry , and found that new companies targeting existing customers succeeded 6% of the time, while new companies that targeted non-consumers succeeded 37% of the time.

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Entrepreneur Advice Disruptive Innovation CRM 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Here’s a review of the five core components of resilient systems, which I pulled together for my new book, The Big Pivot , based in part on two other important works: Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder and Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back , by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy. billion hit to earnings).

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Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

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. Of course with some types of consulting – where the explicit contract is to produce a technical product or system – it may be perfectly appropriate. And this brings me back again to the definition of consulting.

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Consultative Definition Christensen Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. There were no processes and systems in place to integrate the outpost team with the company HQ and the rest of the organization. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. For the employees involved, this was a huge opportunity. But for the organization?

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Our calendars get out of sink with the solar system so we must periodically get our human calendars back on track with the celestial ones. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). We all know why leap years exist, right? Totally upended.

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Leadership Christensen Innovation Metrics 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. Questioning should be rewarded (or at least, not punished).

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

In the book, he focuses on the importance of “systems thinking” to help transform a business into a “learning organisation.” 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.”.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

If doing nothing leads to decline, projects with marginal projections actually are better alternatives than inaction (this misuse of financial tools for innovation is discussed in depth in a 2008 Harvard Business Review article by Clayton Christensen, Willy Shih, and Stephen Kaufman). Believing that good entrepreneurs seek out risk.

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Net Present Value Entrepreneur Christensen Innovation 8