Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

March 10 brings the new book, Create The Future: Tactics For Disruptive Thinking, by J eremy Gutsche , CEO of Trend Hunter. Gutsche shares that, Create The Future , "is a book about Disruptive Thinking, so it makes sense that it shouldn't follow conventional norms. We can’t do that. Stop saying : We’re too big. We’re too small.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? 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

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. Is Uber disruptive?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

David: Who are you and what do you do? 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. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In return, these 15 would ‘pay if forward’ by doing the same thing for 15 others, for free. I was inspired to do this by the many great teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. 100 COACHES.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Which do you respond to first? 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. Sustaining Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. You might think you are being annoying, but it’s the only way you learn. Identifying the Threat of Disruption. Ask a lot of questions,” Linda advised me.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

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. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. It's a similar story when you contemplate disrupting yourself mid-career.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

One of the most effective ways to launch a successful disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry is by building your business model in the “other” category. Uber is trying this in other markets too, in cities like Los Angeles.). This relaunch might make Uber a truly potentially disruptive company.

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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. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. Indeed, any company considering an adaptation initiative should first ask itself five questions: Do your customers really want you to change?

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Although 5% of your time may be taken to write your plan, and 95% on execution, it’s important to do team planning properly. In Max’s experience, for teams to be &# on their game&# , leaders need to instill the Five “P’s” of Team Performance: Purpose: be clear on the objective of the team; what are you there to accomplish?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. and Are Ready to Do It Again. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Dick Grote. By Nicholas Dunbar.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Back in January 2009, my colleague Tim Huse and I wrote an article for Forbes.com in which we offered some predictions based on a pattern we'd observed while doing research for The Silver Lining. These were companies following the pattern of disruptive innovation.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I gave a talk at the Canadian Marketing Association in Toronto last week. Leaving the hall, I fell into step with a young marketer. How are you doing?" Everyone wants to be innovative but no one wants to make a mistake.". But then no one seems to do anything. Senior managers frown on anything that won't pan out.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

While all of these strategies are intended to manifest organizational creativity, none do — and they often backfire. See More Videos > See More Videos > As Teresa Amabile and Mukti Khaire explain , “One doesn’t manage creativity. One manages for creativity.” Related Video. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. Tesla, Nespresso, and Geox are current successful examples of such high-end disruptions. As a result consumers learned to compensate. In the late 1960s, Michelin introduced the radial tire into the U.S.

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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? Push to learn in market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g., new product, distribution channel, marketing approach).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

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. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

As Lafley recalled, P&G had planned to quietly test market Vibrant — their bleach offering to rival Clorox — in out-of-the-way Portland, Maine. Do you know what Clorox did? They throttled a potential David — or Goliath — in its test-marketing crib. Clorox found out. "Do Calling Professor Schelling !

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

These models assume that it takes a while for companies to find out about new technology and, once they do, for their employees to assimilate and use it. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Sometimes they are a fit, but often they are not. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

At a fundamental level, the decisions managers make about revenue and profits fall into two categories—those related to growth and those related to cost reduction. Managers use cost-related data as an objective input for decision making, since they consider it both reliable and reasonably predictable. How do you do that?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Every major car manufacturer is offering prototypes or early models of cars that do most of the driving automatically, including luxury models from Tesla with a built-in “autopilot” feature. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Just do It. We don't think so. It's that simple.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. This initial surprise led to an even bigger one: the market for small-business-accounting software was ripe for the taking. Here’s the fundamental problem.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

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. But in today’s ever-connected world, finding radical ideas seems to be getting tougher for companies. Use Convergence Thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Markets change. This is an era of disruption. Not disruption as the occasional event, but disruption as the constant, chronic condition of our professional lives. You would hope that we were getting better at understanding and managing change. We are denying disruption, instead of adapting to it. Acceptance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Do we really believe MBA or law degree credentials would better procure their full-time employment? Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market. A recent McKinsey & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

During one of these conversations, a prospective investor turned to Clay, and said (paraphrasing), "Love disruptive innovation theory. My abilities were market-tested, validated by bulge bracket firms. While your experience is different than mine, here are some things that I have learned while being "invisible.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. However, management was not convinced. How, then, can organizations break free of conventional thinking to spark creativity?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It wasn''t profitable, or scalable, but it was a brilliant way to learn what the business would really need. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out. He has caught lightning in a bottle. three times.

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