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. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If these countries are important for your company's future, commit to spending at least two weeks in each market over the next year. One group wanted me to detail the essential habits of disruptive innovators (where I happily leveraged the great work on the innovator's DNA by Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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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

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone. What if I don't have that foundation?

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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

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

AUGUST 20, 2013

Keeping it productively innovative and innovatively productive is another. What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change? At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. All the pieces are in place to create “ disruptive innovation ” and “ cross the chasm ,” but the results are disappointing. The problem is that data, information, and value propositions are not enough to sell innovative products.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." Barriers to entry be damned.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. If they can get that value — or most of it — from contingency workers, outsourcing, automation, innovative processes or capital investment, why wouldn''t they?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Most cases boil down to signaling, where the founder''s desire to sell signals a belief that the company is over-valued, or of a lack of commitment: • When a founder wants to liquidate more than 20% of her shares. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship' When is a secondary offering a bad idea?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

The game isn't over, and adding Verizon's other innovations might even change the game. There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. But like disruption before it, the zeitgeist around lean has in some ways grown apart from the power and purpose of the idea. But you how do you get there? You can''t just ask for it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

The seventh stage of development typically takes places between the ages 40-64 and centers around generativity, a period not of stagnation, but of productivity and creativity, including a strong commitment to mentoring and shoring up the next generation. Entrepreneurship Generational issues Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

For the United States and Germany, strong multinational corporations and technological innovation are the driving factors. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

used to avoid commitment. Look at the now hallowed examples of “ disruptive innovators ” (mini-mills versus integrated steel makers, online versus full-service brokerages, and so on). The economist Fritz Machlup wrote an essay about weaselwords: “words concealing voids of thought.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Fortunately, disruptive innovation does not have to. But not all.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

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' Amazon’s Jeff Bezos recommends looking for opportunities to convert capital and fixed expenses into variable costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Ultimately, Accenture’s Disruptability Index positioned 20 industry sectors — and 98 segments within those sectors — against those two axes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

Also involved in the jostling are a lot of interested but not quite so committed investors trying to figure out which way Apple is headed, plus a bunch index funds that have to own a lot of AAPL because it has the highest market capitalization of any corporation on the planet (indexing giant Vanguard is Apple’s biggest shareholder ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

If people don't spend their money and time on the new, it's clear they really aren't committed to actually changing. Instead, we need to embrace fearlessness, turning people loose to create strategies, disruptive innovations, and next-gen business models. And crucial innovation never takes place.

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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

APRIL 9, 2014

Learn quickly from disruption. This Cup also featured a disruptive innovation: the practice of “foiling.” As a result, “we had to commit to the design of the second boat without enough time sailing the first to learn what worked and what didn’t.”. That stopped us for a month.” But the team found an upside.

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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. That doesn't mean that the Corporate Superstar has no role to play in innovation. Innovation muscles can be built. It starts innocently.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. The agenda goes far beyond political activism; it attacks root causes by committing to sustaining an inclusive model of economic growth. But this inclusive approach may require some uncomfortable choices.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

s position as a global economic leader has been based on one thing more than anything else: its ability to innovate. Each of the industries that have sprung up around these innovations has become an engine for America's economic growth. Ironically, this lack of IP is making China a more innovation-rich environment. The reason?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Information & technology Innovation Internet' Half that many rely on over-the-air antenna television for video content.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation?

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. For example, in the early days of Kodak's disruption, its core film business actually was growing.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

3) Lack of commitment. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. She faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

They should be calling for AOL to double down — not by increasing Patch's $150M+ yearly cash burn , but by increasing commitment. Patch has the potential to be a truly disruptive business. It might partner with innovative service sites like Redbeacon so you could find contractors in your area. Consider the market.

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Disaggregation Advertising Business Model Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

These trends will require oil producers to shift their focus away from transportation and diversify towards innovative petrochemical products to capture market share in diverse end uses such as clothing and construction materials.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

What's distinctive about Umpqua has to do with how it offers those products — its commitment to reimagining the experience of interacting with a bank. Umpqua's 15-year track record of growth has little to do with the products it markets, which are virtually identical to the products offered by other banks.

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