Leaders must rightsize the organisation for their current reality when confronting change, a difficult task, as Kodak discovered.
History is replete with examples where bankrupt organisations had all the ingredients they needed to endure, but their perspective biased their evaluation. In many cases, engineers at established firms had invented the same technology that led to their firm’s demise. However, the entrants led the commercialisation of disruptive technologies rather than incumbents because of the relativity problem.
It is a pleasure to welcome a great friend of Clay Christensen, yet another soul deeply touched by the man, the author of âStall pointsâ and author of the 2014 paper, The Capitalistâs Dilemma, Derek van Bever.
Clayton Christensen mentored Bob Moesta, and they became fast friends. Bob was one of the principal architects of the Jobs To Be Done theory. He expands on the theory and shares his respect for his friend Clay.
Sports Academies are like Innovation and Incubation Labs
In, “How Will You Measure Your Life?”, Clay Christensen and Karen Dillon apply the theories developed by Clayton Christensen to our lives.
Karen Dillon joins us to share concepts from her book How Will You Measure you Life co-authored with her friend, Clay Christensen
“Butterflies, for all their graces, are merely caterpillars who persevere.” Guillaume Apollinaire, Honda and the emergent strategy in America.
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Hornâs âDisrupting Classâ is an unsettling title for a book about the schooling process.
The title conveys multiple meanings.
The principal message is that disruption can usefully frame why schools have struggled to improve and how to solve these problems.
The Innovatorâs Solution summarises a set of theories that can guide managers who need to grow new businesses with predictable successâto become the disruptors rather than the disrupteesâand ultimately kill the well-run, established competitors. To succeed predictably, disruptors must be good theorists. As they shape their growth business to be disruptive, they must align every critical process and decision to fit the disruptive circumstance.