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. Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With AI’s influence, their projections suggest a potential resurgence in global GDP growth, envisioning a substantial boost to the global economy by 2032. They conducted an in-depth analysis of over 160 million jobs in order to produce analytical insight to help leaders navigate this change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. Sustaining Innovation. Disruptive Innovation. 5% on small sustaining innovations. 5% on big, disruptive innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Why does disruptive innovation seem to take so long? And why don’t the usual levers we deploy to speed up our innovation efforts–like pushing more resources, more frequent check-ins, and tighter deadlines–seem to deliver results? Innovation webinar'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

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. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. It's a similar story when you contemplate disrupting yourself mid-career.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. That’s a healthy company.

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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.”. Carol began to look impatient.

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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. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions? Speed alone is insufficient.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The potential market for Chinese entrepreneurs is huge. Millions of Chinese innovators would love to flood the market with smaller, cheaper, more convenient products that don't appeal to the mainstream market's performance expectations. In the United States, disruptive innovation has harmed a few but benefited many.

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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. Insight Center.

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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 avoid wasting millions, if not billions, on projects destined for failure? Can it be profitable?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

The subject was intrapreneurship and it seemed like the organizers had collected an all-star panel; two Googlers, an early Facebooker, one of the recent additions to the Paypal team, and one of the IBM leads on the Watson project. Yes, all of the panelists were speaking broadly on innovative projects.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

What both companies have in common is that they are masters at adapting breakthrough innovations for existing markets. In essence, great sustaining innovators are great marketers. Other firms have dedicated innovation labs where they can "test and learn" without excessive risk.

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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. New technologies, including innovative and sensitive chat bots and voice services are now in development to help support patients and caretakers in care homes or hospices.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. How can the United States achieve a better record in the future? The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

But Inoue says the shift, which will involve finding fresh ways for researchers to work with organizations to bring new products to market, is crucial for the company’s future.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 18, 2017

Today's conventional wisdom says to survive, companies must move beyond incremental innovation and invest in radical, disruptive innovation. In "THE POWER OF LITTLE IDEAS" , Wharton professor David Robertson examines an approach to innovation; one that is neither incremental nor disruptive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

Early on, CSAA IG’s executive team recognized that to create a culture of innovation, the organization needed to do more than embrace individual innovation projects. creating new digital customer experiences) and “disruptive innovation” (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

To a prospective student (or parent), the value lies in assuming these signals will be accepted in employment markets and other times of social evaluation. There are sites — notably Degreed and Accredible — that adapt existing notions of the credential to a world of online courses and project work.

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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? Push to learn in market. Why is that?

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Reports of the death or deliquescence of Google''s "20% time," which allows employees to devote one day a week to side projects, may well be exaggerated. What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The Reproducibility Project found it could substantively replicate the results of fewer than 40% of 100 high-profile experiments published in peer-reviewed journals. But, as the Reproducibility Project results indicate, constant vigilance, scrutiny and skepticism are essential to quality assurance.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. Disruptive products and services are unleashed. New markets are created. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. What does it take to innovate at scale? Customers smile, employees cheer and shareholders win.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

In this way, the start-up that initially served only small businesses can disrupt incumbents and come to dominate the large enterprise market, too. The first step to entering the small business market is to identify opportunities where incumbents are ignoring small businesses because their products are too expensive or complicated.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He was not your standard internet entrepreneur — the student presenting was pitching a project to increase sub-Saharan farm income, by helping farmers shift from traditional crops to rubber trees. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Patient capital.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation. Accountability : Any new ideas should contain accountability provisions. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

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