Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular. employees), and FTE start and end dates (average of 2.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

When do you turn cash-flow positive?”. The simple truth is that Carol wasn’t in a position to absorb the early-stage losses that developing a disruptive idea almost always requires. Every company should dedicate a portion of its innovation portfolio to the creation of new growth through disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

In the survey more than 70% of participants reported that they felt their organization was well positioned for future success, with about 15% strongly agreeing with that sentiment. More than half of the executives we surveyed believe their operational model is in need of change and disruption.

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Health Care Management Disruptive Innovation Survey 8

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. Adapting to disruption is never easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

An auto insurer, for example, that only touches customers at renewal time or in the event of an accident, has a terrible relationship with customers because it''s never positive. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing' Thanks to such an app, the insurer could offer points or partner promotions to reward drivers.

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Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 9

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. In 2012, the Pew Charitable Trusts said in its latest State of the News Media report, "the operating margin for Gannett was 9.9%, New York Times 5.4%, McClatchy 15.1%, E.W. Scripps 6.9%

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. I was faced with undertaking a massive restructuring and write-downs to get the unit back to a competitive position. Sometimes they are a fit, but often they are not.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Those administrators in the position to understand the imperative to innovate don’t actually have control over purse strings. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Disruptive innovation Education Information & technology' It’s a game of responsibility hot potato.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations.

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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. Splitting the business does not change the position of either half.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

So resources shore up the position of businesses that are starting to fade, eking out a little more time for the managers in charge. Many organizations were once structured to ensure that each function operated with maximum efficiency. then reorganized because this left them vulnerable to disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

After more than three years of operation, it was clear that the team had worked out how to do this: by late 2013, the total measurable profit contribution from their projects was expected to hit half a billion dollars. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. From the beginning, self-driving vehicles have proven to be better drivers than most human operators, since software is able to learn as it goes. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In industries being disrupted by new entrants with distinct business models, incumbents often have an important advantage: entrenched regulatory and legal barriers. These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. In the U.S.,

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Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Not surprisingly, special interests are popping up, hoping to complicate the process in the interest of preserving a favored position under old laws.

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Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Ultimately, Accenture’s Disruptability Index positioned 20 industry sectors — and 98 segments within those sectors — against those two axes.

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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. To lead (and to spin), you have to achieve and maintain balance.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

As new tools become available to build or rebuild human capital more effectively and efficiently, corporations could seek to broaden their mandate in this area, both with their own staff and in the communities where they operate. Business needs to remain deeply embedded in society to positively affect it. Essential background.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. In the 20th century, Kodak was truly one of the world's powerhouses.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Key to our advice is the implicit acknowledgement that all disruptive businesses find their strength in some technological or business model innovation that is fundamentally better positioned than their upmarket competitors in serving some segment of the population.

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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

First, the role must be positioned correctly, at the appropriate level in the organization, with sufficient scope, influence and sponsorship to make change happen. Tasked explicitly with driving growth, these roles combine strategy, corporate development, investment, and operations, as companies seek to find meaningful new revenues streams.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

If you’d determined a way to make use of an expiring asset, you’re likely in a strong position. But not every on-demand idea is positioned to upend your operations. Once it passes, it’s gone forever. In many industries, there is fixed investment going to waste every day.

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Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

That criticism perhaps held in early iterations of Kodak’s digital cameras (the $20,000 DCS-100, for example), but Kodak ultimately embraced simplicity, carving out a strong market position with technologies that made it easy to move pictures from cameras to computers. Companies often see the disruptive forces affecting their industry.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

This puts African telecom companies in a position to promote an open-minded, hang-up free approach to enterprise mobility. Most African corporations, especially in the private sector, are only now in a position to think deeply about information technology (IT).

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CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. You, by virtue of your degree and title, will have positional authority. But I implore you to use that position sparingly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future? The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation.

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Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Today’s cloud IT vendors have both the buying power and the operational discipline to minimize the cost to the customer of a unit of data storage or computing power. In cloud computing, we’ve seen these network effects help solidify the position of massive players – locking new entrants out of the market.

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Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. Absolutely.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” As the disruptor improves its offering, though, the incumbent’s position becomes increasingly fragile.

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Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 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).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

In turn, the first mover experiences explosive growth and assumes a dominant market position while earning wonderful profits. There was a drive to build market share quickly, reap network effects, drive growth, and achieve dominant market positions. But those positions proved vulnerable. End of story.

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First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

As disruptive innovations enter the market with faster velocity and increased firepower, entrepreneurs are finding themselves dealing sooner and more intimately with the law. Sometimes, the innovation is just too new, creeping out consumers and lawmakers who hurriedly work to ban it. and urged Congress to outlaw the technology.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Constraint Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As Dell''s public statements have pronounced, these changes will reduce near-term profitability, raise operating and capital expenditures and involve a lot of risk. As the pace of competition intensifies, it is going to be harder and harder for companies like Dell to keep a leadership position. So we are left with a quandary.

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