Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? Disruptive innovation India'

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program. ’ Game.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I'm doing an innovation update at one of our meetings and I'm hoping you can assist me with some conversation starters," a senior leader said to one of our clients. The main point of the presentation is to get the audience thinking proactively and positively about how they can contribute to innovation.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Innovation has emerged as a key means by which the US can pull itself out of this lackluster economy. In the State of the Union, President Obama referred to China and India as new threats to America's position as the world's leading innovator. Many in the high technology industry have known this for a long time. The reason why?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Innovation is a particularly sticky problem because it so often remains undefined. We treat it as a monolith, as if every innovation is the same, which is why so many expensive programs end up going nowhere. Defining a managerial approach to innovation starts with developing a better understanding of the problem we need to solve.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. So I’ll pose a question now: What questions should corporate innovators use to increase their odds of success? It is the innovator’s job. What problem is the customer struggling to solve?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Throughout his childhood, Hassani loved to create toys, some of which were wind-powered and would blow across the desert near his home. Years later, this memory would return to him and suggest a solution : a wind-powered toy to clear land mines. He’s an innovator. Rolling out major innovations must be your top priority.

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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

MARCH 9, 2016

Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders). in 2011 to 2.9%

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Discrimination and bias have influenced the development of artificial intelligence. How can we account for that as we implement AI?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. This shift is long overdue.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Those who say the cost is dropping often point to the dramatically falling costs of computing power.

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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. Here are five power skills we discovered to help you find uncontested space.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

And while China has been more of a displacer than a disrupter to date, that is changing. Xiaomi’s phones are not technologically disruptive in hardware terms, but they are revolutionary in customer experience terms; customers come to expect and appreciate their weekly OS updates.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. 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. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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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

JULY 15, 2016

Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

To see that larger picture, let’s locate Apple within its larger context as a once disruptive innovator that’s now essentially an incumbent. A fundamental tenet of disruptive innovation is that established firms normally do not react to disruptors. And for a good reason. But one thing has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

A good friend of yours calls you one day to pick your brain about an innovative business idea. Clearly, there are many ways to evaluate an innovative business opportunity. The idea might be good, but there are very powerful competitors in his industry doing a terrific job.”. Consider this situation.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate. Just How Powerful Are You?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms? For much of the 1980s and 1990s, many parts of the startup ecosystem focused on communications, technology, and health care. Are competitors with disruptive strategies having a material impact on portions of the industry?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In addition to the digital tools entering the workplace now, several technologies and trends on the horizon have the potential to further transform the way we work and interact with others. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Artificial intelligence. Augmentation.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Spotting disruptive business models early is very powerful but arguably difficult. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

In leaving Wall Street, I was not only walking away from the money that came with my position, but from a certain level of prestige and power as well. 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.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. Competition Disruptive innovation' Uber looks solid here, as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Higher education, however, is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled. Education-technology companies EduClipper and Pathbrite , and also general-interest platforms such as Tumblr and WordPress, are used to show online portfolios.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. This is the transformational and dramatic effect of a superior technology entering an industry. Tesla, Nespresso, and Geox are current successful examples of such high-end disruptions. Goodrich, and General Tire).

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