Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. So many industries have in fact reached this point that, as things stand in the 21 st century, we know very little about when a high-end disruption will succeed. They learned to repair their cars or to recognize which brand of a particular product was currently best.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Remember the scene in the first Austin Powers film where Powers, attempting to escape in a steamroller, warns one of Dr. Evil''s henchman to move out of its path? Competition Disruptive innovation Strategic planning' until it''s too late. Neither response will move you out of a steamroller''s path.

Industry 8

Industry Pharmaceuticals Disruptive Innovation Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Example after example abounds of this attitude; whether it was the VCR which was "to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone" as famed movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti put it at a congressional hearing , or MP3 technology, which they tried to sue out of existence.

Content 17

Content Innovation Technology Disruptive Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." At least, that will be the story if Hollywood execs don't heed the call of disruption and make some changes. And that's the story I sling every time I walk into a meeting with film and TV executives. But then that Hollywood magic starts to kick in.

Rogers 15

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Bachelorette , a film starring Kirsten Dunst, created a small sensation this summer when it was released to video-on-demand (VOD) a month ahead of it's September 7 theatrical debut. Bachelorette is not the first film released this way, but it is the first to do so well. It would allow more effective marketing spends.

Film 8

Film Disintermediation Budgeting Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Stanton explained at the TED Conference on Tuesday that back in these scrappy days of 1993, as this group was putting together its ideas for its first movies, it saw itself swimming upstream against the dominant forces — and mindsets — of animated films.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Team Film Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Under these circumstances, as I outline at great length in The Disruption Dilemma , independence is exactly the wrong impulse. Fujifilm, for example, outlasted Kodak not only because it changed from being a film to an image company two decades ago but because it built its entire organization around its new approach.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The company's version of the truth regarding core values was based around silver halide film and paper. Further, they understand the need, as described by Chris Zook , to look at a company's core business from both an internal and an external perspective. Unfortunately, Kodak focused on the internal perspective.

CIO 9

CIO Outsourcing Cost Center Film 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The inventors, who publicly announced this new approach in March, say they were inspired by the film “Terminator 2” – specifically the scene where a robot reshapes itself after having melted into a puddle. Another promising development is multi-jet fusion.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

When Netflix and Qwikster were integrated, these users would be able to search the Netflix library and get the film they wanted one way or the other. They're the ones Netflix has managed to upset right now. And with good reason. Now, they'll have to search two separate sites. They'll have to run two separate queues.

Strategy 11

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

As disruptive innovations enter the market with faster velocity and increased firepower, entrepreneurs are finding themselves dealing sooner and more intimately with the law. Sometimes, the innovation is just too new, creeping out consumers and lawmakers who hurriedly work to ban it. and urged Congress to outlaw the technology.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Constraint Entrepreneur 8

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 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Kickstarter funds everything from art to food to fashion, films, and hardware. The freedom to innovate unleashed by the JOBS Act may prove far more disruptive, perhaps challenging the wildly successful models of today’s donation-based services. Disruptive innovation Finance Innovation'

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