The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

It’s a problem I argued recently that many peddlers of metaverse technologies are falling foul of. He suggested that the majority of organizations focus on the idea, the product, or the technology. They then create this idea and attempt to sell it on the market. Understanding the customer.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2011

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Badaracco Karen Christensen Lessons from the Sandbox Liquid Brand Agency Marty Neumeier McKinsey Quarterly Michael A. Bob''s blog entries "Brain Food Nuggets (11-20)" "Readers’ Advice for Young Women in the Workplace" "Take the Metaskills Quiz 2.0 Roberto Michael C.

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Blog Christensen Rogers McKinsey 75

LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2012

Below you’ll find who we feel are the top professors on twitter, broken into lists around leadership, innovation, and strategy. Innovation. Clayton Christensen. Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program. We thought it’d be worthwhile to share with you the people we learn the most from. Leadership.

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Hamel Porter Christensen Innovation 168

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That we’re still largely waiting for such an immersive world to take hold, despite much-hyped initiatives, such as Second Life, perhaps underlines the difficulties the technology has had in keeping pace with such a vision. Digital twins. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 109

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption and a co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors. But as her business grew, what she envisioned became blurry, as she focused on fine paper and cards, the accoutrements of correspondence, rather than on relationships.

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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? Disruptive innovation is a parsimonious theory that explains many business failures.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that.

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Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology.

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

As we let ourselves be vulnerable, we also leave ourselves more open to new ideas, new ways of thinking which leads to empathy and innovation. As we let ourselves be vulnerable, we also leave ourselves more open to new ideas, new ways of thinking which leads to empathy and innovation. Photo: Stephanie Alvarez Ewens CS : Absolutely.

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Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

In Clayton Christensen’s new book, Competing Against Luck , the authors delve into the importance of gaining a deep understanding of what your customers desire. Often innovative solutions can be found if you expand the scope of what you see as the system. The book lays out a Theory of Jobs to be Done in a very compelling way.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera. But who wants to stand up for old technology?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". However, as Clayton Christensen aptly points out, disruption occurs over time — not in a specific instant. While the value chain will optimize for specific circumstances, often technologies are created that eliminate the need for certain pieces of an industry's value chain.

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

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. This innovation and integration is still a work in progress. or a doctor's office.

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Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Christensen 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In fact, my colleagues and I have found that innovation thrives when expert users make up about 40% of an invention team. Earlier this year, Sruthi Thatchenkery , Michael Christensen , Stefanos Zenios and I completed a study of 231 surgical instrument ventures over a 25-year period. Food and Drug Administration).

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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. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Venture capitalist Chris Dixons declaration , after plunking $50 million down on Buzzfeed, that he was investing in a technology company has been causing a bit of head-scratching and gentle mockery in media circles. When Buzzfeed editors do it, its technology. Which you could, with some justification, call a technology.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. Author of @MeasureYourLife. It is a manifesto of human creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Its ostensible mission: " to prevent technological surprise to the U.S. Anticipating and enabling " technological surprise " has become even more challenging, DARPA director Arati Prabhakar recently told an MIT audience, because more people in more places have more access to more technology that ever before.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Does your business — should your innovators — have a muse? While Clay Christensen is unlikely to publish "The Innovator's Muse" anytime soon, the empirical fact is that innovative organizations are desperate for sources of design differentiation. Perhaps the newly-knighted Sir Jonathan Ive has one, too.

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Innovation Fashion Christensen Creativity 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Professor Clayton M.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The work of two of the most important scholars in the field, Clayton Christensen and Richard N. 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. Foster , suggests considering five questions: 1. Probably not.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. One yes bears watching; two yeses is a standup moment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Richard Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. It's an essential primer on the history and current state of finance. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

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