Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. Disruptive Innovation. 5% on small sustaining innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. Competition Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular. adapt, amplify, compile, configure).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations. The rise of part time jobs means the absence of full-time commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Virtually everyone who''s made money from the App Store or competed against a Salesforce.com or SurveyMonkey viscerally understands the huge differences between "pretty good" developers and those best described as "terrific." " Acqu-hiring " has become both a buzzword and a best practice for a reason. That sensibility made Google Google.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Gone are long pre-launch development cycles that attempt to create the optimal product for the most demanding customer. So look for industries where upfront costs are high and new technology could offer similar services with little or no upfront commitment. Entrepreneurial management Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." It was one of the first comprehensive studies of the innovation process. Though it didn't deal explicitly with the concept of disruption, it did bring up a concept very important to the disruption of the television industry: ecosystem development.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

His theory explains that each healthy human passes through eight stages of development from infancy to adulthood. Think about it — disruptive innovation is about playing where no one wants to play (low-end), or has thought of playing (new market).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

innovation is driven by a can-do spirit and a healthy appetite for risk, with established corporations and startups introducing some of the world’s most important and game-changing technologies. It has to develop domestic consumer markets and orient its production towards them. In the case of the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. The agenda goes far beyond political activism; it attacks root causes by committing to sustaining an inclusive model of economic growth. Essential background. Leverage technology from front to back.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

then reorganized because this left them vulnerable to disruptive innovation. The main lesson here is that an innovation probably won't be well served by the organizational structure that supports the existing business. Many organizations were once structured to ensure that each function operated with maximum efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Advances like 3D printing and EdX, the joint venture between MIT and Harvard, mean that even industrial production and education are seeing disruption, and are also having their own incumbents lead the disruption. There are three levers organizations can pull to keep pace: catalytic roles; culture; and commitment. Commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

A: While many outsiders think of P&G primarily as a marketing machine, the company's $2 billion annual investment in research and development demonstrates its serious commitment to innovation. Unfortunately, many companies starting their innovation journey make just this mistake by overreaching in their initial efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

This new normal is the result of the oil business being disrupted. In the past, it was assumed that conventional oil reserves would be developed by national oil companies and major oil and gas companies to supply virtually all of the world’s oil demand.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Corporations commit the LeBron-on-ice fallacy all the time. A company makes the strategic decision to create a group dedicated to the creation of innovative growth businesses. If they don't, but they have time to develop them, that might be OK. But he wouldn't necessarily be world-class. It starts innocently.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. So congratulations graduates – as you move forward in your careers, you’ll be face to face with innovation that’s relentless. .” I had to develop the discipline to listen. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

From his first days at the helm of the billion-dollar open source software company, which lives, breathes, and bleeds the values of open source development (not least: the best ideas win, no matter where they come from), Whitehurst realized "if I'm not called an idiot at least once a day, then something's wrong.". The effect?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

Engineers charged with developing cardiograms for India and China specifically quickly discovered that GE's state-of-the-art $5000 machine wouldn't cut it on the bumpy, dusty roads to India's villages (many of which are without reliable electricity) and would have to be drastically cheaper. Do what you believe (and only that).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

The key was Roshan's sustained commitment to on-the-job training of Afghans. Truly game-changing institutional innovations are unlikely to come about from internalizing the rules and making the moves that allowed others to win.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

The key was Roshan's sustained commitment to on-the-job training of Afghans. Truly game-changing institutional innovations are unlikely to come about from internalizing the rules and making the moves that allowed others to win.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

A member of the Forum for Growth and Innovation, a Harvard Business School think tank developing and refining theory around disruptive innovation. Those paths were developed by people who rely on process and rules to tame the chaos that is life. Maxwell Wessel. There are a thousand paths in front of you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Cultural risk: Having a "failure is unacceptable" culture causes total risk avoidance or an inability to cut losses and walk away from a decision that doesn''t work out — a trap of "escalation of commitment to a losing course of action." Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia'

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