Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

On top of the technical skills, Netflix is building an organization tuned to the needs of a disruptive environment. The presentation goes on to say, "We're in a creative-inventive market, not a safety-critical market like medicine or nuclear power. This mirrors Hastings's statement about possibly moving too fast.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. The frontier economy has unimaginable appeal to the skilled engineers and savvy entrepreneurs. Musk is celebrated worldwide, and deservedly so.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. With this in mind, we started to document and study the best-in-class skills of our client companies and their intrapreneurs.

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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. Many a skilled leader has fallen prey to this circumstance. You can see my reply there. I agree with both of you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the clearest signs of an opportunity for innovation is someone demonstrating that a problem is important to her by spending time or money trying to solve it and expressing frustration (either vocally or visibly) because existing solutions fall short. Identifying the Threat of Disruption. Speed alone is insufficient.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Alongside Clay Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen conducted an in-depth study that uncovered the five skills shared by the best innovators in the world. Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution.

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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

MARCH 2, 2011

Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to provide that only people with a lot of skill and a lot of money could participate. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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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. Thus, a degree from a top university has been seen to contain crucial information about a person’s skills, networks, and work habits. Headhunters Reveal What Candidates Want.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

CEOs in a recent poll agreed that creativity is the most important skill a leader can have. Tom Stillwell , CEO of the Clio Award–winning marketing agency Midnight Oil , explains: “Creativity can be very expensive if you aren’t careful. What seems less clear is how to actually cultivate it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

At Apple (or at any innovative company), they take a little bit of this, sprinkle in a little bit of that and that and that to churn out market-busting ideas such as iTunes, and the iPod, iPhone, and iPad (along with a few market disasters like the G4 Cube computer). That's what disruptive innovators do, day after day.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g., new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). How do I spot opportunities for innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. These are the seven areas: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. But the ways people''s knowledge, skills and expertise get plugged into the workplace has been. Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market. Have people been commoditized? Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation. Most innovation is the former, and is often little more than the clever replication or reproduction of what were once breakthrough, thus disruptive, innovations.

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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 18, 2014

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. The print business remains in an unattractive market, and the media business remains in an attractive market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Still another is moving the older equipment to less-demanding applications or to plants in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from. traffic deaths.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

It’s a balancing act that requires a unique mindset, a particular set of skills and tools, and a specific strategy. Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. Even unknowns, such as new competitors entering the market, are not totally unknowable.

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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. He says it takes entrepreneurial spirit and initiative as well as technical skills to thrive as a remote worker.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

“Jim,” as he is known to all, not only did pioneering work in mathematics; he also founded Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that relied on scientists to make predictions and trade in global markets. BONUS BITS Countering Intuition Has ''Disruptive Innovation'' Run Its Course?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. It''s partly because managers of well-moated companies tend to turn complacent — or just don''t need much skill to run such a business in the first place. But that''s rare.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In her HBR article, "Disrupt Yourself," Whitney Johnson discussed how Clayton Christensen's theories of disruptive innovation can be applied to changing one's career path in a competitive job market. Continuous disruption is the reality of business, and likewise, the process of self-disruption is never-ending.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In disruption we call this type of inroad into an industry, in this case the health industry, a New Market disruption. Before, people couldn’t monitor their health regularly because they didn’t have the skills, time, money, or easy access to a doctor. And it is this functionality that makes them valuable.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

The skills required to play hockey are very different from those required to play basketball. His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. Innovation muscles can be built. That's no dig on James.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

It too will disrupt; it's just lagging the rest. First, the education market overall clearly fits Clayton Christensen's disruption theory : the seemingly inferior (but less costly) online education experience is coming from below and gradually encroaching on the for-now-superior-but-fat-and-happy classroom world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

… Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In traditional marketing communications, a well-informed brief will shape a human-driven strategy and insight-guided planning process. Chief marketing officers and their teams contemplate and shape the brand attributes that best define the relationship between a product or service and its customers. Marketing strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

After all, we have a great deal of skill with file transfer protocols." At Zappo's the employees are referred to as members of the "family"; Apple created an internal MBA program to enhance team members' skills and long-term value; and Tesco promoted its innovative CIO to CEO. Today corporations are said to be more enlightened.

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