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.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

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Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product. Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. Here’s the fundamental problem.

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Uncertainty Meyer How To Disruptive Innovation 164

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams. While executives excel at setting a firm’s strategy, it usually takes teams made up of people on the front line from all of the divisions affected by proposed changes to figure out how to implement them at pace. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. As my colleagues noted in a Harvard Business Review article earlier this year, the extremes in most Asian markets are well served. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. The race for the middle.

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Previously, he launched Hulu.com from inside of NBC, and was on the founding team of MLB Advanced Media, the five billion dollar digital media company collectively owned by the Major League Baseball team owners. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

It was an unusually complex problem, so the firm set up a team of crack microchip designers, and they started putting their heads together. About 45 minutes into their first working session, the marine biologist assigned to their team walked in with a bag of clams and set them on the table. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 21

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Alfred Rappaport's article, " Stock Market Signals to Managers ," in the November-December 1987 issue of the Harvard Business Review, provides managers with a clear method for understanding how price reflects the market's expectations about the company's future financial performance. But very few executives or investors do.

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Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. Big Law’s commanding market lead in specific practices areas is also being challenged by boutique firms. But that’s just not true.

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Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Founded only last year by a team of current MBA students, HourlyNerd is a prime example of the disruption in consulting that my co-authors and I discuss in our new article , “Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption” in HBR. that also incorporates former operating executives regularly in its project teams.

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McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 8