Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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. Netflix is building a platform for the streaming/cloud end game; it is not building for the near term, or DVDs by mail. focus only on streaming).

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14

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. But it’s an idea that demands attention, investment, and a long view of the market.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

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. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

Supply Chain 51

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

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. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. LARRY: Sure.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., 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. By definition, a game changer causes change.

Blog 315

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 315

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. Two topical communities stood out as being linked to the largest number of the other topics: disruptive innovation and radical innovation.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 12

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. State the additional management skills that you look forward to learning, and your plan to learn them.

Career 8

Career Disruptive Innovation Long-term Agility 8

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

ANDREW: It’s actually a long, drawn-out story I can talk about when I joined the Batten Institute about seven years ago. It tends to be when we hear the term design thinking we think back to IDEO and the computer mouse or continuum and the Reebok Pump, right? Some are kind of innovation powerhouses.

Innovation 104

Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

To move itself forward and to move up the value chain, China needs to begin developing a management system and, more important, a culture for technological and product innovation. German corporations have historically been big innovators in terms of technology and product quality. Germany and the U.S. approach.

Management 8

Management Market Penetration Innovation Engineering 8

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.

Innovation 9

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Short-term Long-term 9

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.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Since the mid-2000s, however, this model has been under threat from a new, decentralized model, in which electricity is generated on a much smaller scale near or at the point of use, often through a combination of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, batteries, and the digital management of the electricity grid.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Official support and encouragement for disruptive businesses would allow innovators to create unusual and long-term value for their companies. Promoting dynamism and consumption is very costly to its short-term goals. In the United States, disruptive innovation has harmed a few but benefited many.

Disruptive Innovation 15

Disruptive Innovation Entrepreneur Short-term Banking 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. Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

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

Brand 11

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

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. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next.

Disruptive Innovation 16

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

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. They make mistakes. They fumble.

Wireless 15

Wireless Suri Power Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

I have long been influenced by Drucker''s work. As the effects began to play out in the ''70s and ''80s, Drucker wrote extensively about the need for management practices to change. The widespread erosion of ROA confirms that our management practices and institutions are struggling to respond to the relentless pressure.

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

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. Virtually every industry is in the midst of massive upheaval, thanks to unprecedented applications of creativity, innovation, and imagination.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Strategy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. Incentivize for long-term viability. Pursuing innovation inside a big company is a balancing act. He was completely right.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Stamps.com disrupted traditional mail-processing companies like Pitney Bowes by replacing expensive equipment purchases with an online application and monthly subscriptions. Gone are long pre-launch development cycles that attempt to create the optimal product for the most demanding customer.

B2B 8

B2B Disruptive Innovation Short-term Entrepreneur 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. Collaboration Coaching Leading teams Talent management' So how do you promote and leverage work-style diversity?

Team 8

Team Diversity Disruptive Innovation Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Paralleling Jim March’s classic analysis of “exploration vs. exploitation,” short term crowds out long term here as well. More importantly, managers need to monitor the tool innovation roadmap.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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. Innovation Strategy' incumbents. after chemicals).

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

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. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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. But a panel of outside experts that had been assembled to critique the strategy warned management about an emerging risk.

Industry 8

Industry Pharmaceuticals Disruptive Innovation Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

I’m a partner at a venture capital firm, and venture capital has long been a key way for the top-performing endowments to deploy capital. One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

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. We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. This didn't work well.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

Senior management attempted to mollify us by rattling off the reasons why this acquisition made sense, but for those of us wondering if we had a job, their strategic vision was irrelevant. Because senior management is frequently unwilling to make tough decisions, to their detriment, departments often have co-heads. Who do I report to?

Uncertainty 15

Uncertainty Maslow Disruptive Innovation Report 15

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.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

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. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

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. They can help keep your innovation pipeline full. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

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.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

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. We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. This didn't work well.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Because the model relied on providing long-term loans, Eric asked questions about repayment and cultural bias. The student presenter acknowledged the risks and simply stated, "Well, we won''t know any of that for a long time. Unless you sit towards the top of your organization, your own manager will rarely be senior enough.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

.” Defining what leaders mean when they drop the word transformation matters, because these different classes of efforts need to be measured and managed in vastly different ways. For Netflix, a DVD-based model requires managing warehouse utilization and physical distribution costs.

Metrics 8

Metrics Retail Content Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from. Lawmakers face a critical choice.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8