N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2021

The traditional narrative around disruptive innovation is that those doing the disrupting are nimble, agile, and generally taking advantage of the winds of technological change. Managing disruption. ” Adopter segments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For me and many other physicians, reading " Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care " by Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy in the September-October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review was like having a light turned on. It was like World War I trench warfare, where a 1% shift in market share was a big deal.

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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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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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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

A three-time TED speaker, Jamie has been named as a “management guru” in the Financial Times, and has also been included on a list of the world’s “top 25 management thinkers” by the journal Business Strategy Review. To learn more about Jamie’s work, visit his website: www.jamieandersononline.com.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The authors offer up five additional strategies in the full article. The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. Medical supply and equipment costs are abating under market pressure. Looking for more?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2023

How Molson Coors formulated its strategy for entering the cannabis beverages business.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. DAVID: Yeah. LARRY: Sure.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? .” On the other, it means, “the carrying out of a death sentence.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The authors offer up five additional strategies in the full article. The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. Medical supply and equipment costs are abating under market pressure. Looking for more?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2024

If you’re leading your team through big changes, this episode is for you.

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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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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

JANUARY 18, 2011

Matt Eyring , president of Innosight, explains why disruptive innovation in developing countries means not just tweaking, but instead rethinking, your business. He is the coauthor of the HBR article New Business Models in Emerging Markets.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

A game changer is that ah-ha moment that creates an extreme, disruptive advantage or improvement. 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. Thanks again for sharing Gwyn.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Ironically, after years of books, articles, and MBA programs dedicated to strategic thinking, that’s the danger with how strategy is used in business meetings. ” So let’s first clarify what strategy is not. .” ” So let’s first clarify what strategy is not. So, what is strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2024

Disruption is not the only path to innovation and growth. Creation without disruption or nondisruptive creation is about creating a new market outside or beyond existing industry boundaries, and has its own organizational and business advantages. 2) It is an effective way to respond to full-on disruption.

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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. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

It turns out that disruptive innovation researchers have empirically measured the odds of success in each of these situations, and their findings may not be what you expect. 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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The “jobs-to-be-done” theory articulates the gap between how producers view and market a product and how customers actually use it. In the words of Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt, “ People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. Xiaomi’s Challenge. The implications for Xiaomi and Hugo Barra are clear.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. The second installment moves Tesla beyond the traditional car market, with a plan to reconfigure our cities, energy systems, and our impact on the environment. The first installment had been written in 2006.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. In the 1950's, the American market was quite small and dominated by entrenched players such as Harley Davidson, Indian, and imports like Triumph and Moto Guzzi.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

To see that larger picture, let’s locate Apple within its larger context as a once disruptive innovator that’s now essentially an incumbent. A fundamental tenet of disruptive innovation is that established firms normally do not react to disruptors. And for a good reason. Consider that Apple sold 74.4

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Strategy, after all, is about tradeoffs — choosing where to focus. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Margins are maximized to the extent that companies leverage core capabilities in bringing products to market, and are able to establish control of key points in the value chain, for example regarding commodity costs, patents, or brand strength. For some industries, those basic strategies still hold true today.

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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. I clicked three buttons, and my ride was there in 12 minutes. Uber nails this.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. If you bounce from one strategy (say, low prices) to another (full service) and back again, people won’t know what you stand for. What is the cost?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

This insight resonates with our work on disruption across industries: disruptive innovations create new systems or “value networks” that eventually displace the old ones. Embracing a larger, more encompassing self-definition powers systems-level ambitions.

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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.”. Would that such a creature existed!

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