N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Clark Callahan – Managing Director, Custom Programs, Harvard Business School Executive Education.

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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., The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Empowering workers is considered the acme of enlightened management in the West, where employees are typically looking for independence from their bosses and "ownership" of their jobs. As a management practice, empowerment has just as much value in China as it does everywhere else.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. I avoided conflict.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. I felt like those rules as I was reading what sort of makes these big bang disruptive innovations succeed, those rules I think are still in place.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

More than half of the executives we surveyed believe their operational model is in need of change and disruption. After all, we expect incumbents to feel most confident about the future when they believe their operating models are sustainable — and to fear extinction when disruption is on the march. .

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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. Less than 1% of those investments have focused on helping consumers to play a more active role in managing their own health, an area ripe for disruptive approaches. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Disruptive innovation theory expands your view, increasing the odds that you spot important trends early. Of course, the more places you look, the more things you see.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. Absolutely.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

After Tuesday, when News management told 60% of its editorial staffers, including several old friends of mine, that they were being fired , I think I can finally and conclusively forget about that little dream. Dealing with disruptive innovation is difficult at any time, in any industry.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

She was looking at these leaders, these middle managers in large companies that were in stagnant industries, but these managers were still able to have double-digit annual growth even though their industries were stagnating. As things change now towards more innovation focus, these tools translate well for managers.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Since then, he has written over a half-dozen books and many more Harvard Business Review articles, almost all of which touch on disruption in some way. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model.

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

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Every company should dedicate a portion of its innovation portfolio to the creation of new growth through disruptive innovation. But companies need to think carefully about who makes the decisions about managing the investment in those businesses. Budgeting Disruptive 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. Identifying the Threat of Disruption. One of the central tenets of disruptive innovation is that companies innovate faster than people’s needs change.

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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. This is what I recommend to my students who want to launch a disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry: Don’t do it illegally or allegally.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

Many modern businesses take stock in the reality of disruptive innovation and try to react accordingly. In the software industry, giants like Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM have all invested heavily in the cloud technologies that are disrupting software. Customers Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Lead from the top.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Lead from the top.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

For those who would admonish Gerber for their approach to transformational innovation, it might be wise to consider that the company did exactly what it was designed to do: create operational efficiency. In it's infancy, it's designed to bring innovation to the market. This was their biggest barrier, not a lack of vision.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency. Disruptive innovation Innovation Organizational culture' See the rest of the series here.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

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. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. 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. More importantly, managers need to monitor the tool innovation roadmap.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

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 Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is a fascinating relationship between executives and the stock prices of the companies they manage. Rappaport showed that, in setting a price, the market offers a clear signal that can inform operational and financial decisions. Next, compare the expectations of the market with those of management. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. How do they affect day-to-day behaviors?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

They were all ignored by the wireless operator, who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages and by the crew, who were focused on breaking the speed record. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent.

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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? Measure learning, not results.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes. .”

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