Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? To start, try eliminating customer pain points. Identify these types of practices, and wipe them out.".

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

.” Yet, despite the unprecedented scope and momentum of digitization, many decision makers remain unsure how to cope, and turn to scholars for guidance on how to approach disruption. The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” This may happen in two ways.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 12

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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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In addition to the digital tools entering the workplace now, several technologies and trends on the horizon have the potential to further transform the way we work and interact with others. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Artificial intelligence.

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Technology Trends Content Agility 8

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. That vestiges of old technologies linger on, capable of being resurrected into viable businesses again, doesn’t seem strange to us.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Engineering Innovation Content Credit Rating 8

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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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Fixed Assets Project 8

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.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

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. Perhaps you too are ready to disrupt yourself. Columbia University professor Amar V.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In 1993, IBM research accomplished the first quantum teleportation , a technology isn't likely to result in a product until after 2020. Sustaining Innovation: Every technology needs to get better. What both companies have in common is that they are masters at adapting breakthrough innovations for existing markets.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Outsourcing Productivity 10

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'

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

As The Economist recently noted , systems that unduly favor certain borrowers over others end up subsidizing ill-judged and financially unsound projects.) Formed to create employment, not to maximize profit, they are neither motivated nor incentivized to disrupt themselves.

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Disruptive Innovation Entrepreneur Short-term Banking 15

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.

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Disruptive Innovation Entrepreneur Sample Resources 8

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.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

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? He was completely right.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Education-technology companies EduClipper and Pathbrite , and also general-interest platforms such as Tumblr and WordPress, are used to show online portfolios. 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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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 13

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? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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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.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

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.

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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.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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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Company Peer Review Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

So look for industries where upfront costs are high and new technology could offer similar services with little or no upfront commitment. Entrepreneurial management Disruptive innovation' Amazon’s Jeff Bezos recommends looking for opportunities to convert capital and fixed expenses into variable costs.

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B2B Disruptive Innovation Short-term Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Have people been commoditized?

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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

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 384

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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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

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”. . China Disruptive innovation Global business'

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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. 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. Distribution strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. Keurig’s founders started from scratch when they created their proprietary coffeemaker and K-cup technology. was designed to protect the company’s earlier K-Cup technology.

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Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

The vast majority — 75 percent — have more than six years of industry experience and half have more than 10 years when they create their startup," says Duke University scholar Vivek Wadhwa , who studied 549 successful technology ventures. Carol Fox , 69, has devoted her golden years to the China-U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Fortunately, disruptive innovation does not have to. But not all.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

It has generated $26B in additional revenue for IBM since its inception and played a vital role in repositioning the company as a business services organization, rather than simply a technology company. We continue to learn about how other organizations manage this project of "exploring" and "exploiting" simultaneously.

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 15

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.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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. Otherwise, issues raised will go unresolved or projects will drift back to more conventional paths.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

It has generated $26B in additional revenue for IBM since its inception and played a vital role in repositioning the company as a business services organization, rather than simply a technology company. We continue to learn about how other organizations manage this project of "exploring" and "exploiting" simultaneously.

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone.

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