Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. Is Uber disruptive?

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It is exactly this brand of thinking that is dead wrong when it comes to new product development and competitive strategy. It is this type of thinking that leaves venerable, high-performing companies — like Apple — open to the existential threats posed by competitors' disruptive innovations. It will be Amazon.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

Their most known for the debut product, a biodegradable smartphone case. Unlike nearly every other smartphone case, their products aren’t made from plastic. They found out how to take waste products from farming and turn them into a moldable plastic. But within 10 years, Pela’s products become waste-free.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It’s not productive – IT DOESNT WORK. Don’t focus on restricting someone’s development, Focus on unlocking their passion and their potential. As a leader you must learn to build bridges leading from old habits and comfort zones to the more fertile grounds of disruptive innovation.

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Disruptive Innovation Belief Systems Bottom-up Tactics 133

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

This is a tricky juncture, when you transition from scrappy, creation mode into organizational development mode. The development of an organization that’s in the fast-growth stage slams you with many new challenges, some of which are extremely difficult for many founders. Tell me if this sounds familiar. -

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IPO COO Dunning Delegation 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Incremental change doesn’t disrupt an industry; radical change does," they note. You don’t cut prices by 90% through marginal improvements in existing products. The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies. Or you could completely undercut industry pricing models by, say, 90%.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. General Thomas Kolditz – Founding Director Doerr Institute Rice University, formerly head of Leadership Development West Point.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School of Business studied the role of suppliers in product innovation and found that it is beneficial to shift suppliers when moving forward with an innovative product. This helps avoid the natural resistance to change that the current supplier may have.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. How did you develop it? 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem. 2: Disaggregate. 5: Analyze.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

Many focused on their own welfares and drilled inflexibly for greater productivity. Wise leaders know that success in the future will not come from incremental improvement but rather through disruptive innovation. Leaders were instructed to be tough but fair. Champion Diversity.

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Wilde Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Open-book 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Incremental change doesn’t disrupt an industry; radical change does," they note. You don’t cut prices by 90% through marginal improvements in existing products. The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies. Or you could completely undercut industry pricing models by, say, 90%.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. 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. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 335

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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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. Some are kind of innovation powerhouses.

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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn''t necessarily invalidate it. The Two Kinds of MVP.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Before focusing on customer acquisition, focus on product development.

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Strategy Productivity Products Development 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn’t necessarily invalidate it.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

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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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.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Organization Cooper 101

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.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Two elements of it have caught some attention: Snap’s statement that it is a “camera company,” and its intention to reinvest its revenues in developing new products that will take significant time and expense, but which it believes it can develop faster than competitors. a platform)? a platform)?

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IPO Productivity Products Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

To see that larger picture, let’s locate Apple within its larger context as a once disruptive innovator that’s now essentially an incumbent. A fundamental tenet of disruptive innovation is that established firms normally do not react to disruptors. And for a good reason. But one thing has changed.

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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.

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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? Last year, the U.S.

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Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Disruptive Innovation.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

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. Think here of enterprise-software developers such as Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle, who are undergoing the disruptive change to cloud-based software service.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Before handing them off, you need a clear framework for defining innovation problems and approaches that are most likely to resolve them. Defining a managerial approach to innovation starts with developing a better understanding of the problem we need to solve. Sustaining Innovation: Every technology needs to get better.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Outsourcing Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions.

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Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

We think we have the right architecture not just in silicon but in the organization to build these kinds of products.". Steve Jobs' legacy in product development has been clearly established and celebrated. What remains now is to determine his legacy in company development. The collection of evidence begins today.

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Company Core Competence Disruptive Innovation Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Two of the main drivers of a country’s economic growth are the size of its workforce and the productivity of its workers. The country’s only hope of continued economic success, he said, was strong productivity growth. As in, Isn’t this the exact opposite of what a chart of productivity and wages would show in the U.S.?

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GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

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.” Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Innovation drives economic growth. This logic has risen to dominate the discourse in development circles, with government leaders, policy influencers, and development-minded business leaders fully embracing innovation as a panacea for unemployment and economic underperformance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to provide that only people with a lot of skill and a lot of money could participate. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 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. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

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. Pursuing innovation inside a big company is a balancing act. He was completely right.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15