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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. I love two things about “Building a Learning Organization” (1993), Garvin’s initial foray into that topic in our pages (and his most-cited article). That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

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The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation. See the rest of the series here.