Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. It’s hard to find precise spending data on the amounts invested in management training (for supervisors and middle managers) and leadership development (for senior executives). Leadership development is sexier.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Operations Group Baring Private Equity.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Finally, fringe markets like hackers or students can put up with the limitations that often characterize early versions of disruptive ideas. billion versus $2.3

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For instance, in the HBR article “ Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest ,” the country with the fastest rate of digital development in the past, and the steepest trajectory for future digitalization, is Singapore. But digitalization does not necessarily translate into growth. A new business model.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Thanks to disruptive innovations , much of our world today looks radically different than it did just a decade or two ago. In industry after industry, disruptions deliver more for less and change everything from how we communicate with one another to how we work and shop. Remember flying in the old days?

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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. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. Competition Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular. million in aggregate funding raised by the startup.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

” We developed a partnership with the Design Management Institute who helped us target about 15 different programs or projects that had a really strong design focus but weren’t the traditional product management or product development stories. DAVID: I think that’s an interesting distinction.

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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Steve Jobs' legacy in product development has been clearly established and celebrated. What remains now is to determine his legacy in company development. To determine if indeed Apple has the "right architecture in the organization" to serially build disruptive products. But a leader should aspire to do more. benefit the world?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

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. Every company should dedicate a portion of its innovation portfolio to the creation of new growth through disruptive innovation. Budgeting Disruptive innovation'

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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.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

However, if you don't know what success looks like, the emergent strategy development process is required to eventually succeed. History has shown us that central planning actually can be an effective development strategy because governments have particularly strong tools for executing deliberate strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Identifying the Threat of Disruption. One of the central tenets of disruptive innovation is that companies innovate faster than people’s needs change. The ferocious pace of entrepreneurialism makes it increasingly difficult for companies to innovate at the same speed as the market in which they participate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Others point out the strong similarities between Xiaomi’s operating system (named MIUI) and Apple’s iOS. Xiaomi is close to meeting its target of selling 60 million phones in 2014 with a business model well suited to expansion into other developing economies.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First, some background: On September 17 th , NASA announced the winners of the $6.8bn “space taxi” contract which will fund the development and launch of new platforms to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations.

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Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 9

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. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images. Challenges.

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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. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Lead from the top.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Lead from the top.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 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. I consistently see measurement as an afterthought in strategy development.

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Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 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? Why is that? Measure learning, not results.

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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. Leading retailers have developed the ability to nimbly change direction, even based on beta testing. Insight center.

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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. or you might not.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Insight Center.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. After all, platforms, including disruptive ones, are nothing new. To get a flavor of their operations, you can watch Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch in reruns of the television show Taxi.)

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Sure it's important to inject discipline into product and service development, but not so much that it discourages creativity. Question whether processes should be improved, eliminated, or disrupted. Continuous improvement doesn't have to be incompatible with disruptive innovation.

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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%

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. Both the U.K. entrepreneurs twiddle their thumbs.

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