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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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

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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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

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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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

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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Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

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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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 13

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.

Engineering 13

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Some retailers maintain a separate in-house team to try out potentially superior new systems that don’t follow traditional rules, in parallel with existing processes. By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. Insight center.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 14

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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Disruptive Innovation Airlines Tactics Tools 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The Future of Operations. Even General Motors, which had a bird’s eye view of the Toyota Production System from its joint venture with Toyota at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. Sometimes they are a fit, but often they are not.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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.

Health Care 14

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 14

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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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. The change will become invisible.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

It’s expensive, but you agree to pay an innovation premium because you appreciate that in innovation clusters the search for talent is fierce. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Consider a European energy company that decided to open an innovation outpost in Silicon Valley a number of years ago.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 11

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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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

More tragically, the group has actually come up with something powerful and novel, but — whoa — someone senior realizes that this could have a disruptive or cannibalizing effect on existing cash cows. The innovators get squashed and the idea is shelved. It can be lethal to organizations trying to be more innovative.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 18

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. Many of the reasons for this are well documented. Since 1999, HP has seen 6 CEOs and interim CEOs.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. If the innovation is developed within your organization, assign responsibility to a dedicated team.

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Innovation Company Engineering Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

It seems evident that the split does not create a new resource, and it is not obvious why splitting would enable the management team to exploit existing resources better. Maybe it is difficult to manage a growing business alongside a declining business. So it is hard to explain this decision using the RBV. Strategy'

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RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Conducting limited and carefully managed trials will unearth the remaining engineering and policy obstacles to a smooth transition.

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Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Whatever has been stable, I will disrupt that stability. The company needs to continue to innovate and grow. I believe we can create a system and culture to perpetuate this culture of entrepreneurial and start-up spirit. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary. Understanding Chinese Consumers.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The first phase of the competition, the Management 2.0

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Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Entrepreneurs in Chinese industries from animated media to applied medical research said that China’s insistence on domestic standards are resulting in less-ambitious innovation and that the education system is not supporting appropriate talent development.

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Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Take emerging blockchain technology applications , which could have vast potential in financial services (currency, payment solutions, digital assets), insurance (contract and identity management), entertainment (performance rights management), and many other sectors. Firms can help close the loop. Essential background.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Unlike in the West, where corporate policies on IT easily date back five decades, and where systems deployed two decades ago are still in operation, the African enterprise has discovered IT just at the onset of cloud-thinking. Intriguingly, the African IT manager has very little influence over the enterprise as a whole.

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CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Stratasys and 3D Systems grew into industry leaders with approximately $1 billion in revenues each. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

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Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

In the most progressive organizations, the CDO role is being absorbed, as standalone digital teams are integrated into the core business, leaving hybrid general managers in charge. Digital should be built into the core strategy, systems, and processes of an organization. Commitment.

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Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

It only takes 10 minutes of direct observation of a nurse in a hospital to understand care-delivery processes are not standardized and are dependent on individuals, not systems. Stable systems that are reproducible are required to deliver consistently high quality. Most health systems in America have or are implementing the EHR.

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Process Health Care Supply Chain Compliance 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. She’d come up with the idea of revamping the company’s inventory management approach by networking together “sleeping” resources. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. Office Politics.

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Politics Innovation Project How To 9

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 system worked. In 1925 Hoover offered that the system was enabling a “vastly increasing number of messages” to be “kept upon the air without destroying each other.”

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000. In April 2010, V.R.

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Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 11

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. Hence, when a new potential stream of revenue presents itself, the company’s management feels it cannot afford to just leave it. Yet Capitec’s management was thinking ahead.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. Conglomerates, after all, are just a management tool.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8