Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. As a result, many top-tier students in developing markets graduating from the best Western institutions are motivated to stay abroad.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. What do you do?

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2020

When you think about it, the model of disruptive innovation is the exception, not the rule. Many leaders associate the term “innovation” with game-changing disruptions of existing industries or the creation of entirely new ones, like the way Apple’s iTunes helped create a whole new way to sell and distribute music.

Innovation 101

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Organization Cooper 101

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

The team had spent the past two months formulating what it thought was a high-potential disruptive idea. Team members had researched the market thoroughly. It employed a business model that would make it very difficult for the current market leader to respond. The classic fingerprint of disruptive success.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

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. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market?

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Less than 1% of those investments have focused on helping consumers to play a more active role in managing their own health, an area ripe for disruptive approaches. jennifer maravillas for hbr. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

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.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. But putting together a great team is tricky. The manufacturing company is not alone.

Team 8

Team Sharpe Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

Engineering 8

Engineering Innovation Content Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Disruptive Innovation. This significant breakthrough in the organization’s operating model and value network facilitates the achievement of growth in a new market, disrupting the entrenched players. 5% on small sustaining innovations. 5% on big, disruptive innovations. 10% on sustaining innovations.

Budgeting 10

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In my work analyzing the thinking styles of leaders in organizations, I’ve found that strategy is usually developed by people who have a big-picture orientation, while execution is often done by those with a detail orientation. The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing.

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

The general way around this problem seems simple enough — have a process by which you evaluate ideas in different ways at different stages of development (most call this a "stage-gate process."). This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. What does that actually mean in practice?

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

Early on, CSAA IG’s executive team recognized that to create a culture of innovation, the organization needed to do more than embrace individual innovation projects. creating new digital customer experiences) and “disruptive innovation” (e.g.,

Insurance 10

Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

To foster a conversation about the potential implications of connected experiences for designers, technologists, and business people, Albert’s team at Microsoft recently released a short film documentary called “Connecting: Makers.”. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

Business Model 13

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Push to learn in market. Why is that?

Innovation 9

Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. In classic cases of industry disruption, such as in steel or airlines , incumbent firms have tens of thousands of employees.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

Christensen 8

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

But Telsa is starting from the top of a market, selling high-end vehicles at high prices. To scale, Tesla will eventually have to grow down market but there are real impediments to doing so. That’s why the most successful innovators usually do the reverse.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Incentives Bottom-up 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.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Similarly, Japan's automobile industry has been plagued by a series of embarrassing quality problems and recalls, and has lost market share to companies from South Korea and even (gasp!) Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders.

Six Sigma 16

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product. Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. Here’s the fundamental problem.

Uncertainty 164

Uncertainty Meyer How To Disruptive Innovation 164

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

It’s expensive, but you agree to pay an innovation premium because you appreciate that in innovation clusters the search for talent is fierce. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. There were no processes and systems in place to integrate the outpost team with the company HQ and the rest of the organization.

Innovation 8

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 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. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Virtually everyone who''s made money from the App Store or competed against a Salesforce.com or SurveyMonkey viscerally understands the huge differences between "pretty good" developers and those best described as "terrific." " Acqu-hiring " has become both a buzzword and a best practice for a reason. You''ve got a problem with that?

Innovation 14

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 14

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.

RBV 8

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 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 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

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. They can help keep your innovation pipeline full. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

To accommodate frequent, fundamental changes to business models, leading retailers generally follow three principles that have been developed through trial and error, often in the midst of disruption. Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system. If the innovation is developed within your organization, assign responsibility to a dedicated team. In Box 3, you create the future.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years. Patient capital.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

By sharply focusing their thinking, the team realized they were shortchanging themselves by not pursuing cross-selling opportunities within their current customer bases. The team realized that to increase share-of-wallet, they needed to shift their perspective. Creativity Disruptive innovation Organizational culture'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. As my colleagues noted in a Harvard Business Review article earlier this year, the extremes in most Asian markets are well served. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. The race for the middle.

Trends 15

Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In traditional marketing communications, a well-informed brief will shape a human-driven strategy and insight-guided planning process. Smart cross-functional teams cull through ideas on the best ways to find and influence consumers to embrace a particular perception or take a specific action. Marketing strategies. Monetization.

Media 8

Media Advertising Audience Technology 8