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. Firms guided by embedded lead users cannot be disrupted in the Christensen sense. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

” To start, the Pathbuilder team undertook establishing a new company purpose and values along with the design of a group-wide process for how to implement disruptive innovations and digitalization. Think of it as a “shadow cabinet.” ” Fourth, intensive training helped accelerate contribution.

Company 8

Company Participative Diversity Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Develop Creative Discontent. Once they find it, they work on finding radical ideas and developing business proposals for top executives to review. The faster you identify the pivots, the quicker your ability to make strategic choices between various radical ideas for your next big innovations.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

And food truck owners in Philadelphia successfully defeated a council proposal to restrict their business around Drexel University through a petition that gained widespread local support and media visibility. In late 2015, a San Francisco ballot initative proposed new restrictions on short-term rentals. In the U.S.,

Licensing 10

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

Innovation 12

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 12

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.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Innovation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. Disruptive innovation Education Information & technology'

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Companies typically spend a lot of time developing financial forecasts of proposed innovations and debating the implications of their analysis. Or explicitly allow the team to accept lower gross margins in a deliberate effort to pursue disruptive innovation. That can be a big waste of time.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Team Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Online virtual assistants, such as Amy or Andrew at x.ai, schedule meetings based on calendars and preferences, propose a range of times by email, negotiate with (human) administrative assistants as needed, and send invitations. Orchestration, APIs, and the citizen developer. This type of help has a high return on investment: x.ai

Technology 9

Technology Trends Content Agility 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. Futurists call them “weak signals.”

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 10

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.

Retail 11

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 11

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. To achieve those ends, we propose that business leaders support a new agenda, comprising seven areas of opportunity. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The conviction spread that, thanks in part to financial innovation, the world's developed economies had become more resilient even as financial markets became more volatile. And economists are dubious of his proposals for massive agent-based computer models of the economy. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S.

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet look through the 22-page " Proposal for Expanding the Dialogue around the Ideas of Muammar Qadhafi " that Monitor prepared in 2007, and it sure sounds like public relations: As is the case of many individuals who are prominent actors in the world, Qadhafi is well known but is poorly understood, particularly in the West.

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted. Then he paused.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8