Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Even using what seemed to be conservative assumptions, the team’s long-term projections showed a big, profitable idea. Of course there were many uncertainties behind those projections, but the team had a smart plan to address critical ones rigorously and cost effectively. Budgeting Disruptive innovation'

Innovation 9

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Short-term Long-term 9

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. Identifying the Threat of Disruption. One of the central tenets of disruptive innovation is that companies innovate faster than people’s needs change.

Innovation 11

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. 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. They focused on a few enormous projects and did them incredibly well. And they lasted.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 10

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. At the Education Innovation Summit the only university endowment in attendance was the University of Texas‘s UTIMCO.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

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. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

8, to invest in small firms to test out new technologies – such as advanced data analytics or new ways to deliver products – before bringing them in-house. By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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. Keurig’s founders started from scratch when they created their proprietary coffeemaker and K-cup technology.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

in 1999 with the dream of: “changing people’s lives with science and technology” — and then he delivered this in a big way, becoming probably the richest person in China, and the only Chinese member of Forbes ’ “top 12 most powerful entrepreneurs for 2013”. . For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future? How do we maximize our creativity as an industry while integrating data-driven approaches?

Media 8

Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

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.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

based shale oil producers have improved their drilling and fracturing technology, and they can ramp up production in an appraised field in as few as six months at a small fraction of the capital investment required by their conventional rivals. As a result, shale oil has soared from about 10% of total U.S. crude oil production to about 50%.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. Explore the fringe. It starts out there, on the edges, around the bend.

Hamel 15

Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". .*

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. “Think outside the box” has become a ubiquitous directive, aimed at spurring off-the-beaten-path strategies, tactics, and viewpoints, whether related to products, operations, or marketing.

Politics 9

Politics Innovation Project How To 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. Projections were that 5 million FM radios would be sold annually. FM was destroyed.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The company’s website reported that Kickstarter has now funded over 50,000 projects , with pledges coming from over 5,000,000 individual backers. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has helped fledgling projects raise nearly $1 billion in donations. Disruptive innovation Finance Innovation'

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8