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Creating Innovative New Growth Businesses Need not Be as Random or Risky as Has been Thought

Author Clayton Christensen writes that the key to innnovative new growth business success is to understand and control the key factors which affect success, and to employ well-tested theories. Successful disruptive innovations and business models do not require breakthrough technologies. Disruptive innovations are either based on having a lower cost...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, innovation, theory

Case studies 2007-12-04

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Forty Under 40: Stanley Kowalski III

Stanley Kowalski III Age 39: President and CEO, FloDesign Inc. It's called 'disruptive technology,' or 'disruptive innovation.' That's a marketing term, first coined by Harvard Business professor and author Clayton Christensen, and now widely used to describe a product or service that essentially disrupts, or overturns, the...

Articles 2008-04-28

Linkage Enters into Training Partnership with Innosight

Wireless News07-16-2007Linkage Enters into Training Partnership with InnosightWIRELESS NEWS-July 16, 2007-Linkage Enters into Training Partnership with Innosight C2007 10Meters - http:// www.10meters.com Linkage, an organizational development company, announced it has entered into an exclusive partnership with Innosight, the consulting and executive training company founded by Clayton M. Christensen, Professor...

Articles 2007-07-16

Margins of Defeat

Clayton Christensen is the business guru. He’s a Harvard prof and well-regarded author. His name is one that might hold some influence over your CEO. The Internet is the innovation. Or at any rate, it’s the fertile ground from which innovations are growing like kudzu. Technology innovations, process...

Articles 2007-06-06

Dr. Clayton Christensen Joins Vanu's Board

Wireless News03-26-2007Dr. Clayton Christensen Joins Vanu's BoardWIRELESS NEWS-March 26, 2007-Dr. Clayton Christensen Joins Vanu's Board C2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Vanu, a software radio provider for the wireless infrastructure industry, announced that Dr. Clayton Christensen -- a distinguished Harvard Business School Professor, entrepreneur, former White House Fellow and noted author...

Articles 2007-03-26

Innovation Expert Dr. Clayton Christensen Joins Vanu's Board of Directors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Vanu, Inc. (www.vanu.com), the leading software radio innovator for the wireless infrastructure industry, announced today that Dr. Clayton Christensen -- a distinguished Harvard Business School Professor, entrepreneur, former White House Fellow and noted author and expert on the subject of disruptive innovation -- was appointed to the...

Articles 2007-03-26

Innovation Expert Clayton Christensen to Deliver Keynote Speech at ITSMA's 2006 Marketing Conference

Clayton Christensen, award-winning author of"The Innovator's Dilemma," "The Innovator's Solution," and "Seeing What'sNext," will deliver the keynote address at ITSMA's 2006Marketing Conference , to be held November 15-16 in Cambridge, MA. ITSMA's 2006 Marketing Conference is the flagship networking and thoughtleadership event for ITSMA, a membership community that helps...

Articles 2006-08-22

Clayton M. Christensen Added to Backchannelmedia's Board of Advisors

Backchannelmedia announces that Clayton M.Christensen, an established expert in innovative technological businessstrategy and management, has been added to its Board of Advisors. Specializing in generating and capitalizing on opportunities for newtechnology organizations, Christensen is a well-known and well-respectedmind in the world of cutting edge business. He is the awarded author...

Articles 2006-06-20

Wikis-a disruptive innovation

Innovation is ranked a top priority by global CEOs. Yet, few CEOs manage innovation by linking strategy to structure. Currently, most CEOs focus on sustaining innovation practices vs. disruptive practices. Disruptive innovation, framed by author clayton Christensen. is where products or systems create new markets. Disruptive innovation patterns are difficult...

Articles 2006-06-01

Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution

Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution; Geoffrey A. Moore; Portfolio Press; 2005; 288 pp., $25.95. Geoffrey Moore is well known from his two previous books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado. Those presented models of innovation that explained the challenges of moving...

Articles 2006-05-01

Record Numbers Expected in Attendance for Annual PDMA/IIR Innovation Event

NEW YORK -- The Product Development and Management Association PDMA and The Institute for International Research IIR are on target to reach record attendance numbers for the upcoming 4th Annual Front End of Innovation conference in Boston, MA, May 22-24, 2006. Keynote speaker line up includes Clayton Christensen, Professor and...

Articles 2006-04-10

Clayton Christensen and Howard Stevenson to Keynote TiECON East 2006: Innovating in a Flat World; Harvard Business School Professors to Discuss Innovation

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- TiE-Boston today announced that Clayton Christensen and Howard Stevenson will keynote the annual event of East Coast chapters of TiE Global, TiECON East, which takes place from June 15 - 17, 2006 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass. Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert...

Articles 2006-02-27

Keynote Speakers Announced for Annual PDMAIIR Innovation Event

NEW YORK -- The Product Development and Management Association PDMA and The Institute for International Research IIR will hold the 4th Annual Front End of Innovation conference in Boston, MA, May 22-24, 2006. Keynote speaker line up includes Clayton Christensen, Professor and Author of "The Innovator's Dilemma" & "The Innovator's...

Articles 2006-02-08

Bookmark this page.(Chuck Knight writes book "Performance Without Compromise - How Emerson Consistently Achieves Winning Results ")

Denes Bolza No compromise A MAJOR new book has been published: Performance Without Compromise - How Emerson Consistently Achieves Winning Results , by Chuck Knight. The former Emerson chairman and CEO offers detailed insights into the...

Articles 2005-11-01

Best-Selling Author of 'Innovator's Dilemma' to Keynote Kopin Vision 2005 Event; Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen Will Detail Birth and Future of Mobile Video Era

TAUNTON, Mass. -- Clayton M. Christensen, the man who coined the term "disruptive technology" and gave it layers of significance in his award-winning best seller "The Innovator's Dilemma," will be the keynote speaker at Vision 2005. The April 25, 2005 event, sponsored by KopinR Corp. (Nasdaq: KOPN) on its 20th...

Articles 2005-04-19

Best-Selling Author to Offer Insight on Change and Innovation in Communications and Impact on Industry's Future

News Advisory: Event: Renowned business expert and Harvard Business School professor,Clayton M. Christensen, will be speaking about the sector mostdisrupted by innovation -- communications -- and what's next forpolicy and industry leaders. Participants: Clayton M. Christensen, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor ofBusiness Administration, Harvard Business School, best-sellingbusiness...

Articles 2005-03-03

From the editor.

Reading a recently published book, Seeing What's Next, prompted us to reach out to the authors for an article on corporate strategy. Indeed, one of the authors, Harvard Business School Prof. Clayton Christensen, has gained international attention and acclaim for his writing about innovation. The resulting...

Articles 2005-03-01

Think Anew to Act Anew

IDEAS ABOUT MANAGEMENT To save their companies from destruction, Clayton Christensen tells managers to look at the low end of the market, and behold the future Clayton Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching interests...

Articles 2005-01-01

Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change.(bookSHELF)(Book Review)

Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change. By Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth. Harvard Business School Press, 312 pages. $29.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Given the remarkable reach and success of his...

Articles 2005-01-01

The Miami Herald business book review column.

By Richard Pachter, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 6--Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change. Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Eric A. Roth. Harvard Business School Publishing. 336 pages. $29.95. ...

Articles 2004-12-06