Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. But putting together a great team is tricky. The manufacturing company is not alone.

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Team Sharpe Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up 8

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.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

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. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

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Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 10

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. Why is that?

Innovation 9

Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Below, we explore each one, in turn: Empower mid-level teams. While executives excel at setting a firm’s strategy, it usually takes teams made up of people on the front line from all of the divisions affected by proposed changes to figure out how to implement them at pace. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. But when it comes to innovation, the truth is often “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

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Productivity Products Software Innovation 12

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

They control costs, they oversee the social media team, they''ve built a fiefdom of IT systems to build the customer relationship, and, most of all, they obsess about the brand. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

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Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 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. There were no processes and systems in place to integrate the outpost team with the company HQ and the rest of the organization.

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Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

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 more than simple disregard for the quarterly pressures of the public markets that powers these industry behemoths.

Long-term 9

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change? At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity. Yes, there''s flakiness and inherent subjectivity in many of the metrics.

Innovation 14

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 14

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. The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) was established in 2008, becoming the first healthcare innovation center to employ a team of in-house designers.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Similarly, Japan's automobile industry has been plagued by a series of embarrassing quality problems and recalls, and has lost market share to companies from South Korea and even (gasp!) 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.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 16

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Previously, he launched Hulu.com from inside of NBC, and was on the founding team of MLB Advanced Media, the five billion dollar digital media company collectively owned by the Major League Baseball team owners. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 8

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. This theory states that success is dependent on positioning your business in a profitable market, where it will have or can gain a competitive advantage.

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RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

By sharply focusing their thinking, the team realized they were shortchanging themselves by not pursuing cross-selling opportunities within their current customer bases. The team realized that to increase share-of-wallet, they needed to shift their perspective. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Transaction costs, Coase argued, explained why some interactions were left to the market and others were internalized in increasingly large, complex enterprises.

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Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Over time, their products and services became better and better, and those innovative entrants moved up market, slowly increasing performance. If an organization could isolate a unit and focus it exclusively on the disruptive market, it had an opportunity to succeed. It wasn’t easy to do, but it was a good strategy.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. All the techniques and mental tricks executives develop over time to run established businesses can be completely counter to what is needed to successfully innovate. Send the team to school. Look for the aliens.

Sports 13

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As we reflect on disruption across the industry there are key strategic questions, all of which fundamentally consider balance: What is the right balance between humans and technology across the full media and advertising ecosystem? When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future?

Media 8

Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

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. The market is taking these claims seriously, as well. This progress will speed up adoption and propel more experimentation and practical application.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For example, interviews with managers of established technology hardware firms showed that their resource-allocation processes favored sustaining innovations (those that had high margins and targeted large, well-known markets and customers) over disruptive innovations (those that had yet to generate hard evidence on their benefits).

Politics 9

Politics Innovation Project How To 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance. So we are left with a quandary.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In order to grow profitability and fight margin pressure, Gerber executives turned towards a market they hadn't successfully penetrated for decades: adult food. Gerber's team knew if they could develop a quick, healthy meal for adults, they had an avenue into meaningful growth. This was their biggest barrier, not a lack of vision.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He noticed that discontented employees were posting negative comments on the lab's internal blog about the local management team, which they viewed as unresponsive to their needs. Another team of employees designed and deployed a daycare for working mothers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Alfred Rappaport's article, " Stock Market Signals to Managers ," in the November-December 1987 issue of the Harvard Business Review, provides managers with a clear method for understanding how price reflects the market's expectations about the company's future financial performance. But very few executives or investors do.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

But it’s less well known that efficiency is a problem for startups too, whose processes also become less flexible as they focus on efficiencies in their quest to move up market. Intriguingly, some start-ups are coming up with characteristically innovative ways to tackle the problem. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Both small startups and large-scale technology companies are eyeing the possibilities this presents, and some are teaming up. Distributed Database. Related Video.

Loyalty 10

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Founded only last year by a team of current MBA students, HourlyNerd is a prime example of the disruption in consulting that my co-authors and I discuss in our new article , “Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption” in HBR. that also incorporates former operating executives regularly in its project teams.

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McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 8