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 2012, the Pew Charitable Trusts said in its latest State of the News Media report, "the operating margin for Gannett was 9.9%, New York Times 5.4%, McClatchy 15.1%, E.W. Scripps 6.9%

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Then again, maybe the real key to strategic success in the fast-moving fields Apple is playing in is to keep coming up with disruptive innovations — and be willing to bring them to market even when they disrupt its own products. Which is a lot easier said than done. Hustle is their style and their strategy."

Strategy 9

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

This theory states that success is dependent on positioning your business in a profitable market, where it will have or can gain a competitive advantage. Moreover, the split does not change the competitive advantages either. Unfortunately this theory also fails to explain the decision to split.

RBV 10

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. From the beginning, self-driving vehicles have proven to be better drivers than most human operators, since software is able to learn as it goes. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. In some contexts, they add competitive advantage. Conglomerates, after all, are just a management tool.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

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 15, 2016

There were other ways in which Kodak could have emerged from the digital disruption of its core business. As Rita Gunther McGrath describes in her compelling book The End of Competitive Advantage , in the 1980s Fuji was a distant second in the film business to Kodak. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. In Capitec’s case, for example, not a single one of its branches that were converted from microlending shops are still in operation today. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

George Mason University’s Adam Thierer, reviewing a resurgence of books about the “existential threat” of disruptive innovation, has detailed what he calls a “techno-panic template” in how we react to disruptive innovations that don’t fit into familiar categories.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Proposal Innovation 8