Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are no failed companies, lost jobs, or destroyed markets in its wake, opening a path to innovation where business and society can better thrive together. It offers the immense potential to innovate new markets where none existed before: Think of the billion-dollar industry the Square credit card reader unlocked, for example.

Innovation 26

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Industry 26

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy.

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Handbook Innovation Tactics Open-book 65

N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2017

This week, after months of reflection, I’ll be instructing our team to remove all references to thought leadership from our materials. I want to free our team to think bigger, better, and in new and different ways. Their work is widely regarded as being innovative, disruptive, and market altering.

Leadership 297

Leadership Constraint Disruptive Innovation PR 297

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 13, 2021

The approach, which is referred to as “multiplexed framing” by the researchers, enables firms to quickly test various strategies in response to disruptive innovation, with this rapid learning and experimentation crucial to forging an effective response.

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Disruptive Innovation Insurance Short-term Tactics 87

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2015

Transforming Organisations for Sustained Innovation by Hubert Gatignon via @INSEADKnowledge. From @JohnBaldoni 5 Ways Jim Harbaugh Inspires His Team. MIT: New research fundamentally challenges Clay Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation. 20 Behaviors Even the Most Successful People Need to Stop by @coachgoldsmith.

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Self-aware Christensen Disruptive Innovation Magazine 150

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy.

How To 65

How To Handbook Tactics Open-book 65

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Functions and clear roles and responsibilities have been replaced with multiple bosses, cross-functional teams, working with partners all over the world and a general sense of never quite standing still. We recently did an interesting exercise in our own team. In this brave new world, the only constant is change.

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Learning-by-Doing White Paper Leadership Development Diversity 259

QAspire

MAY 7, 2017

Our workplace conversations today are dominated by topics like increasing globalization, economic uncertainties, automation, disruptive innovations, social technologies, generational shifts, mobility, people analytics, gig economy and such. Social mindset plays a huge role in enabling people to perform.

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Learning-by-Doing Disruptive Innovation Brand Long-term 195

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 #49 Management Thinker 2015, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Gabriella Teasdale – President at Fundación Transformación PY, CEO Paraguay Leadership Team – John Maxwell Team.

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Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

As a leader you must learn to build bridges leading from old habits and comfort zones to the more fertile grounds of disruptive innovation. It impacts culture, performance, brand, innovation, leadership development, succession and even the sustainability of your enterprise. As a leader you must get this right or fail.

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Disruptive Innovation Belief Systems Bottom-up Tactics 133

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. Yes, we find the most common mistakes in complex problem solving are weak problem statements, poor problem disaggregation, and insufficient attention to good team norms.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 80

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2020

When you think about it, the model of disruptive innovation is the exception, not the rule. Many leaders associate the term “innovation” with game-changing disruptions of existing industries or the creation of entirely new ones, like the way Apple’s iTunes helped create a whole new way to sell and distribute music.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Organization Cooper 101

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

Your sales team was generating twenty or so good leads a week, and now it’s clear that you could generate an order of magnitude more if you just had the people or the right mechanism. The late, great Peter Drucker stated that failure to create a solid team at the top-management level is the core reason startups go off the rails.

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IPO COO Dunning Delegation 120

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? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Teams can be entrepreneurial, but they first need to function effectively as a team.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

There are a variety of purpose-driven organizations whose sense of meaning and mission are drawn directly from the product offered—they sell a disruptive innovation or sustainably sourced consumer product with zero environmental impact. People don’t want to join a company; they want to join a crusade. Audible Amazon iTunes.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 117

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Perceiving that part of the company's manufacturing process in China needed to be changed, he refrained from laying down the law and instead asked the senior team members in China to come up with their own recommendations. "I If I empowered my team in the U.S., Two weeks later, nothing had been done. What's wrong with these people?"

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Bottom-up Execution 15

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

Bosses held control over their means for food; and, if employees were “good team players” they got to enjoy the equivalent of being in the pen on the grass. Wise leaders know that success in the future will not come from incremental improvement but rather through disruptive innovation. Champion Diversity.

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Wilde Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Open-book 150

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

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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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 12

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

There are a variety of purpose-driven organizations whose sense of meaning and mission are drawn directly from the product offered—they sell a disruptive innovation or sustainably sourced consumer product with zero environmental impact. People don’t want to join a company; they want to join a crusade. Audible Amazon iTunes.

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Mission Statement Organization Company Business Model 78

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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Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

During a recent e-Roundtable , Max Carbone , President of TeamWorks , shared with Executive Roundtable members his top team building tips gleaned from his close to 20 years of working with senior executive teams. Passion: as important as keeping team members enthusiastic, team leads must be passionate about their mission.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

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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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

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. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

The team had spent the past two months formulating what it thought was a high-potential disruptive idea. Team members had researched the market thoroughly. The team members smiled, because they were prepared. Budgeting Disruptive innovation' The meeting was going swimmingly. Carol began to look impatient.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

The subject was intrapreneurship and it seemed like the organizers had collected an all-star panel; two Googlers, an early Facebooker, one of the recent additions to the Paypal team, and one of the IBM leads on the Watson project. Yes, all of the panelists were speaking broadly on innovative projects. Yes all three are innovative.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Fixed Assets Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. In most industries, disruption comes from startups. Yet almost all health care innovation funded since 2000 has been for sustaining the industry’s business model rather than disrupting it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Engineering Innovation Content Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Our team collectively spent about 100 days across the two markets, visiting urban areas, rural areas, homes, retail locations, hospitals, and more. A third wanted to "expand the minds of its regional leadership team." Third, I had the privilege of serving as a reviewer for a handful of innovation contests and grant proposals.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Hotels 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Why is that? What do you still not know?"

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation. What do you do?

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8