Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Execution is an odd word. ” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The presentation goes on to say, "We're in a creative-inventive market, not a safety-critical market like medicine or nuclear power. Netflix's focus is on "rapid recovery": recognize problems when they occur and fix them quickly, rather than try to predict every outcome ahead of time.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

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. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current.

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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? Negotiate the expectations up front.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

So how about executive education programs, those run by companies in-house and at business schools? It too will disrupt; it's just lagging the rest. Second, to fully appreciate the forces at work in executive education, we need to complement this view with another body of theory from knowledge management. I beg to differ.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

One of the most frequent challenges we observe in the field is that companies tend to radically underestimate the threat that disruptive change poses to their business. For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. The authors called these "disruptive" solutions and provided a straightforward prescription for leaders looking to turn disruption into an opportunity.

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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. Consider that Apple sold 74.4

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This is purely about executing within an existing and stable operating model. 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.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

During a recent e-Roundtable , Max Carbone , President of TeamWorks , shared with Executive Roundtable members his top team building tips gleaned from his close to 20 years of working with senior executive teams. Here are some of the highlights. the losers that were at the bottom of the heap).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Companies often miss important shifts because they start not among mainstream customers, but at people at the fringes of the market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Instead, chief executives are often presented with two “right” answers, but one is slightly worse. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the clearest signs of an opportunity for innovation is someone demonstrating that a problem is important to her by spending time or money trying to solve it and expressing frustration (either vocally or visibly) because existing solutions fall short. Identifying the Threat of Disruption. Speed alone is insufficient.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

To understand how innovation truly interacts with prosperity, we should first distinguish between different kinds of investments in innovation. In simple terms, there are three types: sustaining, efficiency, and market-creating investments (see more in the HBR article “ The Capitalist’s Dilemma ”).

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 28, 2011

My friend and marketing/branding guru, Brian Sooy, send me a message saying that what I really do is "Inn-Oi-Vey-Tion." Let's face it - innovation is hard - it can be fun, but it's also hard. " I laughed hysterically - and then realized he's right! It takes courage, hard work, fun, creative thin [.].

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

A Gartner survey of almost 500 executives at global corporations revealed that growth is this year’s top priority. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

Many modern businesses take stock in the reality of disruptive innovation and try to react accordingly. In the software industry, giants like Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM have all invested heavily in the cloud technologies that are disrupting software. Once a disruptive substitute emerges, the paradigm changes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

This process of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories. Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

Every leader is hoping for that next great idea, yet many executives still treat creative thinking as antithetical to productivity and control. Tom Stillwell , CEO of the Clio Award–winning marketing agency Midnight Oil , explains: “Creativity can be very expensive if you aren’t careful. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market. More than three-quarters said they are on a good path to successfully compete in their local markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. The recent failures of mass market retailers Sears and J.C. Change management Disruptive innovation Strategy' If it ain’t broke, break it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Yes, all of the panelists were speaking broadly on innovative projects. But innovation is a word that means a wide variety of things to a wide variety of people. Without more specification, “innovation” is simply too broad to execute against. It’s no wonder there is such widespread backlash against innovation today.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

The tactics being used by CSAA IG are all ones that leaders in other companies can apply to their own innovation culture change efforts. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

This kind of disciplined approach works very well when companies have knowledge that lets them be precise in their analysis, and executives have the relevant domain experience to make informed decisions. 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?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. The other article reached executives around the globe through publication in the HBR's print magazine. Was the iPhone a case of "high-end disruption"?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Executive exodus: In 2008, Tony Fadell, senior vice president of the iPod division, stepped down. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Nothing on the scale of "Think different" was created by Jobs more than a decade after that iconic campaign. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping. No iPad mini at all.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

It’s easy to assume Apple Pay is one in a long line of disruptive innovations from the master of serial disruption. Surprisingly, the architecture of the payments industry looks a lot like the pre-disrupted music industry. But this time that’s not the case.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g., new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). How do I spot opportunities for innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

A company finds itself in the path of an unstoppable industry disruption, can hardly fail to see it, yet simply fails to act. We asked nearly 200 life sciences executives about long-term trends that posed fundamental threats to their businesses and how management was dealing with them. Only, it''s not at all funny.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. The problem is that data, information, and value propositions are not enough to sell innovative products.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

You see, while creativity is a clearly a valuable asset, unbridled creativity where random, disparate ideas abound outside of a sound decisioning and execution framework will create distraction and chaos much more often than they will lead to innovation. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Some of the most successful and disruptive innovations stem from a company’s ability to tap into demand from non-customers in its market category. Once you know why potential customers aren’t buying your product, you can develop innovations to make your product more appealing to them. Executing on Innovation.

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