The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2021

The traditional narrative around disruptive innovation is that those doing the disrupting are nimble, agile, and generally taking advantage of the winds of technological change. Managing disruption. To what extent will the new technology cannibalize the old technology and over what timeframe will this occur?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

It also examines how established firms can counter the threat of these innovators through collective lobbying and consumer education. The study highlights that rapid social and technological changes have created institutional and regulatory gaps, allowing informal firms to disrupt major industries.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We know of the value of disruptive change, described best by Clayton M. Here’s the description (from Wikipedia): A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

Innovating O ur Way to Sustainability , we assert that to address these challenges requires substantial, disruptive innovation across a wide number of sectors. Such innovation cannot and will not happen without the active involvement of the business community. Innovation is more than invention.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 27, 2017

So, how does your Marketing serve your innovation? Does it define clearly and collaboratively? Does it integrate desirability, feasibility and viability in an optimal manner? Does it communicate with clarity and impact?

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2023

They highlight that disruptive and nondisruptive creation exist on opposite ends of the innovation spectrum. Disruptive innovation is far more commonly understood and involves creating a new market within existing industry boundaries. ” What is non-disruptive innovation? .

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Rapid BI

JANUARY 14, 2012

Disruptive Innovations that have impacted B2B Marketing Disruptive Innovations that have impacted business & B2B Marketing Looking through some of this data raises some interesting thoughts. The question is what will be the next disruptive technology or application that will change the way we do [.].

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

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. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. DAVID: Yeah.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Nondisruptive creation is when you create a new market without needing to tear down or displace others or your own business. There are no failed companies, lost jobs, or destroyed markets in its wake, opening a path to innovation where business and society can better thrive together.

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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. It was like World War I trench warfare, where a 1% shift in market share was a big deal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. The majority of market observers reckon there is no way that it could slay the giant. Disruption occurs given two criteria.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

If you are an established organization and something new comes along, you are more than likely going to want to use it to do what you did in the past as apposed to use it to disrupt. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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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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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Although their initial implementation was considered a success – they successfully installed a leading PLM software technology and deployed it on a global scale – an assessment a few years later uncovered that the organization had implemented the solution in a decentralized fashion and they weren’t getting the expected business benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? Disruptive innovation India'

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2023

GUEST POST from Pete Foley I’m obsessed with the newly opened Sphere in Las Vegas as an example of Innovation. As I write this, U2 are preparing for their second show there, and Vegas is buzzing about the new innovation they are performing in. That in of itself is quite something. Vegas is a city […]

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

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? We need to start treating innovation like other business disciplines — as a set of tools that are designed to accomplish specific objectives. Related Video.

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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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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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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. It's a similar story when you contemplate disrupting yourself mid-career.

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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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Innovation Excellence

JULY 12, 2020

In markets like South Korea that have begun to reopen, we are seeing that there is not a full return. We’re starting to see the beginnings of that shaping the market. There’s already been some really creative efforts on the part of brands to maintain relationships and interactions with customers using technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. Is Uber disruptive?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation. Today's health-care industry screams for disruption. But disruption solves the more fundamental question: How do we make health care affordable?

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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

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

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. Of course, it takes more than market research and distribution to be an insurer.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

While many of the most impactful innovations of our time are based on advanced technology and decades of research and development work, there are likely just as many that are actually just novel but surprisingly simple approaches to solve a known problem. This brings us to our next key ingredient.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. The Chinese now account for 80% of this market and will soon take it global.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The potential market for Chinese entrepreneurs is huge. Millions of Chinese innovators would love to flood the market with smaller, cheaper, more convenient products that don't appeal to the mainstream market's performance expectations. In the United States, disruptive innovation has harmed a few but benefited many.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

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?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

We will win with superior technology. Most market disruptions rest on innovative business models — new ways to create, capture, or deliver value. Innovation is all about improved performance. Game changing innovation is done only by entrepreneurs. We will win by targeting the biggest markets.

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