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

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

Innovation 15

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. This can result in favoring projects promising a quick ROI over riskier projects offering bigger impact in the long-term. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Paralleling Jim March’s classic analysis of “exploration vs. exploitation,” short term crowds out long term here as well. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 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? I joined Jeanne Liedtka and her research project in the Growth Leaders.

Innovation 104

Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Lobbying for policy reform isn’t much of an answer, because incumbents generally have the benefit of long-term relationships with government agencies built up over many years.

Licensing 10

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

This idea of peer-to-peer commerce, or the "sharing economy" as it is sometimes known, has spawned a new breed of innovations. The company now operates in 190 countries and 28,000 cities, and its founders expect the service to grow to 100 million annual bookings and revenue of $1 billion. Disruptive innovation Government Internet'

Hotels 8

Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The first is operational, or doing what you are currently doing, better, faster, or cheaper. The next category of usage focuses on the operational model. Operational model transformation should change the metrics the company uses to track performance. It is a recipe for short-term survival, not long-term sustainability.

Metrics 8

Metrics Retail Content Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

I have long been influenced by Drucker''s work. Power laws with spiky heads and very long tails progressively crowd out the familiar bell curves that made life seem predictable. If we are to successfully adapt to the escalating complexity of our environment, we need to invest more time and energy in exploring institutional innovation.

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

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. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing' Measurement in a Constantly Connected World.

Insurance 8

Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 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

JUNE 1, 2015

Profitability as the key measure of business success was akin to a law of physics – like gravity – a foundational assumption which we all take as given: you have to deliver profits to create long term shareholder value. Profits appear more and more as a lagging indicator of yesterday’s innovations.

Company 8

Company Software Long-term Disruptive Innovation 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. Those administrators in the position to understand the imperative to innovate don’t actually have control over purse strings. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 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

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. This is where a startup''s lack of profitable operations would have worked to their advantage.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." As long as I have to pay 70 bucks a month for high speed internet, is the additional cost of cable really that much? Over the past decade we've witnessed disruptive content portals emerge on the internet. It's that last comment that reminds me that I'm stuck.

Rogers 15

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

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. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Of course, all is not joy and sunshine in this world as sometimes over-leveraged companies fail to create or sustain the capabilities they need to be successful, but in theory it makes sense for a single investor with a reasonably long-term perspective to take on the difficult work of restructuring. So we are left with a quandary.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. Once a transaction is entered in the database and the accounts are updated, the records cannot be altered, because they’re linked to every transaction record that came before them (hence the term “chain”).

Loyalty 12

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. The iPhone’s victorious attack followed — and required — a long arc of liberalization in airwaves, itself a stunning regulatory and marketplace triumph.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. ” Indeed, Capitec is more focused, in terms of what it does and does not do, than most companies and certainly most banks. Resisting revenue temptations. Evolving purposefully.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. Sound familiar?

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. Disruptive innovation Finance Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8