Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.". It has created tremendous value and still drives competitive advantage in many companies and industries. Absolutely not!

Six Sigma 17

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Organizations such as IBM and GE have adapted over the years to remain competitive in the market. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. Companies that are too obsessed with design competence could suffer, especially in the developing markets.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

Blog 373

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Typically, resources that satisfy these conditions are capabilities or know-how that have been developed over time and are hard to transfer or document. Indeed, if you have multiple resources, the RBV implies that you should develop a strategy to build and exploit all these resources. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy?

RBV 9

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. In a time of great change and disruption, Bezos has turned low margins — usually a sign of competitive weakness — into a competitive advantage.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. “The city is currently soliciting proposals from tech companies to test and develop driverless car and roadside sensor technology.”

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

We often think that innovation really matters only to a small group of people, like corporate leaders steering their companies through changing industry conditions, entrepreneurs hoping to create the Next Big Thing, and research scientists dutifully developing the technologies to enable both. 1996 wasn't that long ago.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. In fact, Kodak invested billions to develop a range of digital cameras. ” A good line, but not completely accurate. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

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.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

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?

COO 12

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

Take what seem to be the three central tenants of capitalism as we know it: competition , the pursuit of financial gain , and the basic geography of power.

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

To meet these challenges, we believe academic medicine must embrace disruptive innovation in its core missions: educating the next generation of health professionals, offering comprehensive cutting-edge patient care, and leading biomedical and clinical research. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

As the technology develops, GE could revamp this and other plants into general printer farms supplying all of its manufacturing divisions. These regional production centers would reduce transportation costs and currency risks, while developing closer ties to their customers. In some contexts, they add competitive advantage.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8