Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

According to Christensen, you keep nimble and respond to up-and-coming innovations at the bottom of the market. You make a concerted effort to not let your company become vulnerable to what Christensen coined as disruptive innovation. So how do leaders make lasting change? That’s how you make lasting change. —.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

As each piece of new technology hits the market, scam artists worldwide are becoming increasingly more crafty in their approach to exploit vulnerabilities in security and have left us exposed to digital attacks. This immense expansion of digital space has left us in dire need of advanced cybersecurity measures.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

The first three styles generally generate positive emotions, while the fourth is more typically associated with negative emotions and therefore has the most limited application with regard to enabling cognitive flexibility: Sense of Fun involves a leader projecting an energetic, positive, playful vibe, and having a generally humorous outlook.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. The majority of market observers reckon there is no way that it could slay the giant. Disruption occurs given two criteria.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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Handbook Innovation Tactics Open-book 65

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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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. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. DAVID: Yeah.

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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.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. What do you do? Negotiate the expectations up front.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

A good friend of yours calls you one day to pick your brain about an innovative business idea. He’ll only consider pursuing this opportunity if you give him a positive review. Here’s what they’ve found, and how they explain their results when they look at them through the lens of disruptive innovation theory.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

their production capacity, which obviously varied considerably) and the competitive intensity of their markets (which ranged from perfect competition to near monopoly, because of regulatory differences between states). We looked in particular at firms with generation assets that would become redundant if the disruptive model became dominant.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

In leaving Wall Street, I was not only walking away from the money that came with my position, but from a certain level of prestige and power as well. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Team members had researched the market thoroughly. It employed a business model that would make it very difficult for the current market leader to respond. The classic fingerprint of disruptive success. You’ve told me it’s a big market, but I’m not sure yet what we get out of this.”. When do you turn cash-flow positive?”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. Tesla is also not comparable to Netflix, another frequently-cited example of a disruptive innovator. If that potential isn’t realized, the money will quickly dry up. For now, Tesla has none of these.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If the odds were 99:1 against breakthrough innovation inside the mature company, we'd still see leaders chasing after that golden ring. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? How do you leverage your unique position to create meaningful returns and capture potential growth?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

It’s easy to assume Apple Pay is one in a long line of disruptive innovations from the master of serial disruption. What’s more, iTunes had a different revenue model, selling music per song, instead of per album, and positioned itself as a substitute product. But this time that’s not the case.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Retail Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market. More than three-quarters said they are on a good path to successfully compete in their local markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

At the moment that a disruptive innovation crosses into the mainstream market and establishes itself as a viable competitor, the third stage in a disruptive innovation's life cycle. Is our strategy evolving as rapidly as the market? When should incumbents be afraid — very afraid?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

"I'm doing an innovation update at one of our meetings and I'm hoping you can assist me with some conversation starters," a senior leader said to one of our clients. The main point of the presentation is to get the audience thinking proactively and positively about how they can contribute to innovation.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

Their position within the industry defines their business strategy. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers. By contrast, here we are referring to the market-wide activities the company performs in its broader ecosystem.). Assemblers construct and distribute a final market-ready product.

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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. Once a disruptive substitute emerges, the paradigm changes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

But innovation theory can provide a crystal ball; theory could have predicted iTunes' success and it's currently predicting Spotify's success. To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done. It's business model innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Marketers constantly tell me that they''re the stewards of the brand and while that sounds good at marketing conferences, it won''t matter at all in a world where customers can have a real relationship with a company through the expanded experience of using its actual products and services. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. Our fund specifically looks to seed businesses that have the potential to disrupt existing markets or create new ones. What does that actually mean in practice? The first decision is whether to have a meeting to evaluate a company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter. And you can use this knowledge to avoid much of the market risk in building a new product. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. the absence of market intermediaries or inefficient contract enforcement mechanisms). Navigate the market’s voids or try to fill them/.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. In their research on " Winning in Emerging Markets ", Harvard professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu theorize that emerging economies have unique combinations of institutional voids (e.g.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

I''ve seen this work wonders for a number of companies that want neutral, unvarnished views of their competitive position. No one can predict the future, but by combining known trends in various ways it is possible to anticipate multiple possibilities — likely story lines about shapes the market could take — for good or ill.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Innovation snobbery is a market signal. Do you believe silicon chips are superior to potato chips? Pay attention.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Look at the now hallowed examples of “ disruptive innovators ” (mini-mills versus integrated steel makers, online versus full-service brokerages, and so on). It’s fundamentally the movement of an organization from its present position to a desirable but inherently uncertain future position.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. This initial surprise led to an even bigger one: the market for small-business-accounting software was ripe for the taking. Here’s the fundamental problem.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. 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. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. 2012) to $385 (last April) — a difference of almost $300 billion in market capitalization — and back up to $555 before this latest earnings report. This isn’t a failure of markets.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

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.

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