Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice. Disruptive innovation'

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Businesses such as IBM and Apple were able to weather disruptive shifts in their markets by taking such a course, creating separate teams and units focused on new innovations (PCs and smartphones respectively). Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 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 and his team went to work and created QuickBooks. Here’s the fundamental problem.

Uncertainty 164

Uncertainty Meyer How To Disruptive Innovation 164

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 9

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

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.

Blog 413

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 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. Over a decade ago, management thinker Tom Peters wrote "there is little disagreement about what businesses must become: less hierarchical, more flexible and team-oriented, faster and more fluid.

Christensen 15

Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. system to innovate.” For instance, all FDA approved medicines were purchased at one-tenth the cost for the same medicines in the U.S.

Health Care 15

Health Care System Innovation Price 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 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. Over the past few years a local team of R&D scientists has re-imagined the product, putting the Oreo brand on products with wafer form factors and using flavors that are more suited to local tastes. Homegrown companies are also increasingly introducing innovative ideas.

Trends 15

Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 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.

Innovation 22

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

I have walked many management teams through a market-signals analysis and the results have surprised them almost without fail. As a liberal arts major with very limited exposure to business or finance, I found the stock market fascinating but bewildering. Disruptive Innovation Comes to Health Care. More >>.

Price 8

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. But that’s just not true. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase.

Real Estate 8

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.

McCallum 9

McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 9