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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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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. It’s why venture investors and entrepreneurs tend to be committed for the long haul.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 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." It's disruption in its most basic form.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies. They are often brought in to disrupt traditional thinking and business models.

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Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

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.

Management 8

Management Market Penetration Innovation Engineering 8

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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B2B Disruptive Innovation Short-term Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

The Verizon Wireless side of the telecom giant, which is 45 percent owned by Vodafone, is also deepening ties with Google for the Droid and betting on its faster fourth generation (4G) network based on new LTE (long term evolution) technology to leap forward in the wireless marketplace.

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Wireless Suri Power Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

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. They had him committed to a mental institution where he died shortly thereafter.

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Productivity Products Software Innovation 14

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

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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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

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". So, before you commit yourself to the path of iteration, you need to work on creating a foundation for innovation.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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? What other well-established companies, in the technology industry or elsewhere, need to follow this recipe or have found their own?

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 15

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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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 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? What other well-established companies, in the technology industry or elsewhere, need to follow this recipe or have found their own?

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

based shale oil producers have improved their drilling and fracturing technology, and they can ramp up production in an appraised field in as few as six months at a small fraction of the capital investment required by their conventional rivals. As a result, shale oil has soared from about 10% of total U.S. crude oil production to about 50%.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

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. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

I never would have experienced any of that — I never would have discovered that technology could be creative, I never would have started my career in tech, joined Google, led Youtube — if I had tried to stick to a specific plan that I had made when I was your age. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 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.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

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." Unfortunately, many companies starting their innovation journey make just this mistake by overreaching in their initial efforts.

Innovation 14

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Business Model Definition 14

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.

Banking 15

Banking Case Study Brand Industry 15

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

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. The key was Roshan's sustained commitment to on-the-job training of Afghans. You could say they were all pieces off the game board of the global economy.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. The key was Roshan's sustained commitment to on-the-job training of Afghans. You could say they were all pieces off the game board of the global economy.

Innovation 11

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Ultimately dubbed the Technology Incubation Scheme (in Singapore, a scheme is a good thing), the program helped bring a flood of diverse investors into the country by offering to put up 85% of the capital in a start-up when investors put in 15%. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia'

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8