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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. When the industry tipped, it did so with a fury. Spotting disruptive business models early is very powerful but arguably difficult. Thought so.

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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms? Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

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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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. We wouldn''t dream of going backwards on any of the new technologies, from a laptop to a typewriter, from a mobile phone to a rotary one, from email to an answering machine. Disruptive innovation'

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

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.