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. Or, they may create markets where no market exists and turn non-consumers into consumers.

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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

Team members had researched the market thoroughly. It employed a business model that would make it very difficult for the current market leader to respond. The classic fingerprint of disruptive success. You’ve told me it’s a big market, but I’m not sure yet what we get out of this.”.

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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

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

JUNE 9, 2014

It boldly enters a space where no real market has previously existed , and could well inspire investors to create one. He’s an innovator. In today’s messy and rapidly changing business environment, even the shrewdest deployment of existing assets by today’s rules cannot sustain an advantage for long.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. Displacement generally is easier to combat than disruption. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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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

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

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. The potential market for Chinese entrepreneurs is huge. Promoting dynamism and consumption is very costly to its short-term goals.

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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. Insight Center.

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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

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. Spotting disruptive business models early is very powerful but arguably difficult. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share.

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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. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market.

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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. 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.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

A recent report by the consultancy BCG documented a general decline in sales among consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies in the United States during 2017, with mid-sized and large companies losing market share and small companies increasing theirs. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. 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.

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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. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

The term "digital disruption" sounds painful. The word disruption implies that things are going to get broken up. But for companies that take advantage of what digital can do, disruption will have the opposite effect. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds. These are the seven areas: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things. Our survival depended upon it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In the early days of the Internet, services such as eBay and Craigslist revolutionized secondary markets, making it easy for individuals to buy and sell used goods. This idea of peer-to-peer commerce, or the "sharing economy" as it is sometimes known, has spawned a new breed of innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

This is a challenge that has long fascinated me. We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Unfortunately, we usually pick the wrong kind of MVP: we tend to choose validating MVPs, even though most businesses fail because they persist too long in solving the wrong problem — what invalidating MVPs are designed to prevent. If you cannot get people to pay a realistic long-term price for a better product, it''s time to move on.

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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 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

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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

This may seem like heresy—even the analysts who are bearish on Tesla in the short-run are bullish on its long-term potential. But Telsa is starting from the top of a market, selling high-end vehicles at high prices. To scale, Tesla will eventually have to grow down market but there are real impediments to doing so.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Unfortunately, we usually pick the wrong kind of MVP: we tend to choose validating MVPs, even though most businesses fail because they persist too long in solving the wrong problem — what invalidating MVPs are designed to prevent. Test market risk first. The Two Kinds of MVP. Which approach should you use first?

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

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. The result: Oracle became one of the most successful companies in back office database products and tools and has now moved onto advancing in the next market, the cloud.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

In this way, the start-up that initially served only small businesses can disrupt incumbents and come to dominate the large enterprise market, too. Gone are long pre-launch development cycles that attempt to create the optimal product for the most demanding customer. Entrepreneurial management Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In some markets Amazon offers same-day delivery, undercutting one of the primary benefits of a nearby physical bookstore. However, given Amazon’s dominance, booksellers interested in serving their communities and gaining from growth in the eBook market should, in fact, consider selling Kindles. of publisher revenues in 2012.

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