Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. They had him committed to a mental institution where he died shortly thereafter.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Software Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market. Technology doesn''t just facilitate automation and innovation; it makes contingent, temporary and part-time job markets more efficient and effective.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. 2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. As I write this, on Thursday morning, the loss for the week is nearing 10%.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

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.

Strategy 12

Strategy Company Strategic Planning Tactics 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

In this way, the start-up that initially served only small businesses can disrupt incumbents and come to dominate the large enterprise market, too. The first step to entering the small business market is to identify opportunities where incumbents are ignoring small businesses because their products are too expensive or complicated.

B2B 8

B2B Disruptive Innovation Short-term Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

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. That''s why Google presents such a special case.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 15

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., Another trait of U.S.

Management 8

Management Market Penetration Innovation Engineering 8

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.

Rogers 15

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. The agenda goes far beyond political activism; it attacks root causes by committing to sustaining an inclusive model of economic growth. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. These are the seven areas: 1. Shape the next wave of globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

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. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

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.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Sports Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

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. Last week, Apple beat the already upbeat market expectations, with record revenues of $46.3 billion and earnings of $13.87 Yahoo's results were, in comparison, limp, with Q4 revenues of $1.17 billion and earnings at $.24

Resistance 12

Resistance Disruptive Innovation Business Model Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. And so many would-be corporate innovators find themselves lacking the mandate, the capital, and the organizational structure to run iterative tests to validate their ideas in an uncertain world — the very core of "lean".

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. Over time, their products and services became better and better, and those innovative entrants moved up market, slowly increasing performance.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

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. Now it’s time for the law to play serious catch-up with a market that has continued moving quickly in unexpected directions.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

He's figured out how to stay ahead of the transformations in technology, markets, and culture that have shaken his competitors in the financial-services world, and built a brand that stands for something special, hopeful, even meaningful in an industry that is profoundly broken. billion.

Banking 15

Banking Case Study Brand Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

And it would take them as long as 5 to 10 years to explore, develop, and then bring production to market after investing billions of dollars into new fields. lifted the 40-year-old ban on exporting American oil, and the maiden shipments are finding their way to global markets allowing U.S. That has enabled the U.S.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Second, look at how P&G recognizes that any individual effort could fail and so creates a portfolio of innovation efforts. The pace of change in today's markets is relentless. Q: P&G seemed to start with a strong culture of innovation. What if I don't have that foundation?

Innovation 14

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Business Model Definition 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

… Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

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. But he wouldn't necessarily be world-class. It starts innocently. But I urge companies to consider three things. Look for the aliens.

Sports 14

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.".

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

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. Consider the market. While I believe in the market Patch is addressing, some of the outcry in the press is warranted.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Advertising Business Model Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

In exploring how to serve this market, GE Healthcare tapped into the "in country, for country" fund established by General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt to promote experimentation around how the company brings products to market. It's a pretty simple formula, he says, "If you can identify it as your impact, then take responsibility for it."

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The power of redistributing power came home to Whitehurst (and his fellow Delta alum Jackie Yeaney, head of strategy and marketing at Red Hat) in the course of introducing a formal strategic planning process to the fast-growing company. Just as important, those plans were never handed back up the chain of command for "final answers."

COO 12

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Each year business leaders commit to an overall revenue growth target, but the reality is that growth within a business is often very uneven. Here are two ideas: First, companies should move beyond looking simply at market share, and instead focus on “share of growth” as the key metric when driving a business forward.

Marketing 8

Marketing KPI Company Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Steve Jobs’ successors are at least an order of magnitude more credible as disruptive innovators than the heirs of Ford and Sloan. According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Big Law’s commanding market lead in specific practices areas is also being challenged by boutique firms. Last but not least , some New Law firms target the small or mid-market companies that may have been priced out by the steep rise in Big Law rates. Burton Law LLC.) . A lot of men want full time flex, alongside many women.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The time commitment for Words With Friends or Fruit Ninja is significantly less than the time commitment to, say, Call of Duty, as is the upfront cost. But, the good news is that there is a clear opportunity to identify an extendable core and survive the wave of disruption hitting the gaming market.

Industry 8

Industry Franchising Christensen System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Many of these investors view Singapore as a launching pad to regional emerging markets like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia'

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8