Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. 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. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. It's a bold move, one that will cost them in the near term, but Netflix I'm sure has done the calculus and is looking at the endgame 5-10 years out, not 5-10 months. Music to any innovator's ears.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

No long-term consideration, which is why its long-term effect on a sense of purpose is pretty minimal. As evidence, consider a purpose-driven company that, for a long-time, had a pretty bad mission statement. And that’s about it. People don’t want to join a company; they want to join a crusade.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” ” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. Now, Netflix is targeting other entertainment providers and is set to disrupt yet another part of its industry.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. You call it this big bang disruption. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Focus on value creation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Even using what seemed to be conservative assumptions, the team’s long-term projections showed a big, profitable idea. Every company should dedicate a portion of its innovation portfolio to the creation of new growth through disruptive innovation. That choice has long-term repercussions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Innovation Centers. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

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. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

He’s an innovator. Time and time again, we see the innovators of the world trouncing the strategists — those who devote their efforts to mastering how the game is played today and optimizing their use of current assets to beat all competitors. Today’s rules are simple: Disrupt or be disrupted. An HBR Insight Center.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

The Batten Institute has been tasked with helping Darden become a thought leader in innovation entrepreneurship. I support that role by supporting our professors, doing research, and conducting our own research into practical questions around innovation. Some are kind of innovation powerhouses. ” ANDREW: It is great.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Musk himself is ambivalent about the term. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. That’s the conventional wisdom, and it’s given rise to popular mantra “Disrupt or Be Disrupted.” Fuse/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Download this podcast. Listen to more episodes and find out how to subscribe on the Dear HBR: page.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

China is now experiencing a middle income trap — losing their competitive edge in labor-intensive industries and not yet gaining new sources of growth from innovation. Official support and encouragement for disruptive businesses would allow innovators to create unusual and long-term value for their companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Amara’s law teaches us that we tend to overestimate the amount of change in the short term but under-estimate it in the long term. Disruptive innovation rarely sneaks up on a company, yet it is easy to discount since its impact is often nonlinear—slow for a long time before the crunch comes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too. Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Corporations should have early warning systems to detect emerging competitive threats that have long-term potential to affect their business. Are competitors with disruptive strategies having a material impact on portions of the industry? The government is often portrayed as an inhibitor to innovation, but that's not fair.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

The Verizon Wireless side of the telecom giant, which is 45 percent owned by Vodafone, is also deepening ties with Google for the Droid and betting on its faster fourth generation (4G) network based on new LTE (long term evolution) technology to leap forward in the wireless marketplace. But roles might soon be reversed. They fumble.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

This idea of peer-to-peer commerce, or the "sharing economy" as it is sometimes known, has spawned a new breed of innovations. Like other sharing economy innovators, Airbnb is now at the center of a legal maelstrom in cities around the world. Disruptive innovation Government Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Whether this will help J&J in the long run, no one knows. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. But every organization needs one core competence: innovation.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. Long story short, Michelin took over 50% of the entire tire U.S. And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

I have long been influenced by Drucker''s work. Power laws with spiky heads and very long tails progressively crowd out the familiar bell curves that made life seem predictable. If we are to successfully adapt to the escalating complexity of our environment, we need to invest more time and energy in exploring institutional innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

There are two kinds of health-care innovation: more-for-more and more-for-less. is the place to take advantage of the latest innovations such as proton-beam cancer-radiation therapy, for which the equipment and facilities cost about $1 billion. just has not been desperate enough to foster Indian-style health-care innovation.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Travel How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Most leaders now recognize that the best teams leverage diversity to achieve long-term success. But many think about it in pretty narrow terms: gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and/or age. He will drive innovation, ensure variety in both thought and execution and keep you moving forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

And then we have Clay Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations : how a new technology that is initially not good enough for mainstream customers, initially gains a foothold with a set of low-end customers who are happy with a less expensive, “good enough” product. How much of it is driven by your tool suppliers?

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. Find Pivots.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla. Designers innovate new ways to bring together existing components in a unique fashion.

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." Barriers to entry be damned.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We, however, propose a different answer — one that explains why Apple was afforded such leniency in the past, and why their present battle in mapping might be long, expensive and difficult to win. Namely, for the first time in a long while, Apple is pursuing a sustaining innovation fight against a well established incumbent: Google.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Innovation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

For the United States and Germany, strong multinational corporations and technological innovation are the driving factors. innovation is driven by a can-do spirit and a healthy appetite for risk, with established corporations and startups introducing some of the world’s most important and game-changing technologies.

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