Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

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. Insight Center.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We examined how each initiative impacted a company’s value through changes in its stock price, which we used as a proxy for determining the short-term costs of self-disruption. As we studied the data, we realized that we were looking at the results of a rare natural experiment on the costs of adjustment to self-disruption.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Even using what seemed to be conservative assumptions, the team’s long-term projections showed a big, profitable idea. The simple truth is that Carol wasn’t in a position to absorb the early-stage losses that developing a disruptive idea almost always requires. That choice has long-term repercussions.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Amara’s law teaches us that we tend to overestimate the amount of change in the short term but under-estimate it in the long term.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Official support and encouragement for disruptive businesses would allow innovators to create unusual and long-term value for their companies. Promoting dynamism and consumption is very costly to its short-term goals. China's growth will soon slow as the "easy" phase of economic development ends.

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Disruptive Innovation Entrepreneur Short-term Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Corporations should have early warning systems to detect emerging competitive threats that have long-term potential to affect their business. Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms? Executives that dismiss these developments do so at their own peril.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. incumbents.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. Incentivize for long-term viability. He was completely right.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

You might see this fledgling business (Mine Kafon is being prototyped and tested now, thanks to a fully funded Kickstarter campaign to finance its development) as a brilliant act of business strategy. Virtually every industry is in the midst of massive upheaval, thanks to unprecedented applications of creativity, innovation, and imagination.

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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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Management Market Penetration Innovation Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

Despite these high-cost innovations (American consumers spend more on health care than their counterparts anywhere else), U.S. It’s no wonder that patients, politicians, third-party payers, hospitals, and providers are calling for health-care models and technologies that deliver more for less.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Travel How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Developers weren't able to offer 3rd party apps to users until the release of iOS 2.0 We, however, propose a different answer — one that explains why Apple was afforded such leniency in the past, and why their present battle in mapping might be long, expensive and difficult to win. and the iPhone 3G.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Innovation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Unfortunately, we usually pick the wrong kind of MVP: we tend to choose validating MVPs, even though most businesses fail because they persist too long in solving the wrong problem — what invalidating MVPs are designed to prevent. If you cannot get people to pay a realistic long-term price for a better product, it''s time to move on.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Develop Creative Discontent. The challenge is finding radical ideas consistently year after year.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Unfortunately, we usually pick the wrong kind of MVP: we tend to choose validating MVPs, even though most businesses fail because they persist too long in solving the wrong problem — what invalidating MVPs are designed to prevent. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship Product development' The Two Kinds of MVP.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. I’m a partner at a venture capital firm, and venture capital has long been a key way for the top-performing endowments to deploy capital.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Gone are long pre-launch development cycles that attempt to create the optimal product for the most demanding customer. 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'

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B2B Disruptive Innovation Short-term Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors? “Our

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 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." The ecosystem will develop.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy. The conventional wisdom holds that every industry is being disrupted and all the rules have changed. But have they? a platform)? a platform)?

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IPO Productivity Products Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

According to Bookstats, a database developed to track revenues, prices and unit sales in the book industry, online retail sales accounted for 48.2% Independent bookstores have responded in part by developing IndieBound, their own online retail store. Disruptive innovation Internet Tech industry'

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eBook Retail Discount Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In terms of speed of adoption, only Apple's iPad has rivaled the Kinect. Aside from some tough comments on my blog, the long-term repercussions were low. Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. Life is tougher for the strategist. The opiner.

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Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Profitability as the key measure of business success was akin to a law of physics – like gravity – a foundational assumption which we all take as given: you have to deliver profits to create long term shareholder value. There are some interesting recent developments.

Company 8

Company Software Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. Because the model relied on providing long-term loans, Eric asked questions about repayment and cultural bias. The student presenter acknowledged the risks and simply stated, "Well, we won''t know any of that for a long time.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

It helps students see that Kodak did not understand or invest in the digital technologies that were to sweep away its business, a failure usually attributed to incumbent executive myopia. They invest over long time horizons, value their technology groups, and regard IT employees as core members of the firm. So it had no voice.

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CIO Outsourcing Cost Center Film 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

But just like Autotune and other technologies that allow passable music talents to turn into global powerhouses, lower costs and increased understanding of the process of innovation can allow anyone to be a competent entrepreneur. We need to make sure we have systems that balance short and long term performance.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. In times of change, businesses have to adapt and innovate. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's essential to the long-term health and survival of capitalism.

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