Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words
. As he put it, “In general it is not the owner of stage coaches who builds railways.” And indeed, Clay Christensen’s landmark work on disruptive innovations showed that disruptions rarely came from successful industry incumbents and, in fact, often took them very much by surprise. Another powerful line of research on
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 28 Jan 2020 · 501pp · 114,888 words
aviation, or what I prefer to call ‘aerial ridesharing.’ ” Aerial ridesharing might sound like sci-fi cliché, but Holden had a solid track record of disruptive innovation. In the late 1990s, he followed Jeff Bezos from New York to Seattle to become one of the earliest employees at Amazon. There, he was
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new innovation creates a new market and washes away an existing one, we use the term “disruptive innovation” to describe it. When silicon chips replaced vacuum tubes at the beginning of the digital age, this was a disruptive innovation. Yet, as exponential technologies converge, their potential for disruption increases in scale. Solitary exponentials disrupt
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Returns”: Ray Kurzweil, “The Law of Accelerating Returns,” March 7, 2001. See: https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns. we use the term “disruptive innovation”: Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma (HarperBusiness, 2000), pp. 15–19. Enter distributed electric propulsion, or DEP for short: Mark Moore, “Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft
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user-generated, 127–30 contracts, blockchain and, 58 convergence, 8–9, 68 affective computing and, 136–38 BCIs and, 255 business and, 23, 181–200 disruptive innovation and, 9 environmental threats and, 226–27 existential risks and, 235–36 finance industry and, 189–96 flying cars and, 9–12 food industry and
Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy
by Jeremias Prassl · 7 May 2018 · 491pp · 77,650 words
platforms have dramatically lowered transaction cost in comparison with established competitors. Lowering transaction cost alone, however, cannot account for platforms’ phenomenal valuations and claims to disruptive innovation: there is, despite all claims to the contrary, little that is genuinely novel as far as platforms’ production pro- cesses are concerned. Uber follows the
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complain of a near doubling of the cost of rides, as discount codes and other subsidies were swiftly withdrawn.28 * * * Keeping Regulators at Bay 39 Disruptive Innovation? In any event, some proponents of the sharing economy argue, society still reaps major benefits from growth driven by platforms’ innovative disruption of existing business
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heavy armour and swords, regardless of how many foot soldiers are at it. Not quite, replies the Harvard Business School guru behind the theory of disruptive innovation. In December 2015, Clayton M. Christensen took to the pages of the Harvard Business Review to declare that ‘Uber’s financial and strategic achievements do
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not qualify the company as genuinely disruptive— although the company is almost always described that way.’29 Disruptive innovation, according to Christensen and his co-authors, needs to ‘originate in low-end or new-market footholds’ and takes a while to catch up in
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Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald, ‘What is dis- ruptive innovation?’, Harvard Business Review (December 2015), https://hbr. * * * 154 Notes org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation, archived at https://perma.cc/ YUW5-UY2P 30. Ibid. 31. Paul Bradley Carr, ‘Travis shrugged: the creepy, dangerous ideology behind Silicon Valley’s cult of
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identifying the employer 100 discriminatory practices 62, 94, 113, easy cases 102–3 121, 180 functional concept of the disputes 66 employer 101–2, 104 disruptive innovation 39–40, 49, 50, 95 genuine entrepreneurs 103 dockyards 78, 79–80 harder cases 103–4 ‘doublespeak’ 31–50, 71, 95, 97–8, 133 multiple
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, 6, 8, 9, 10, 31, 32, 42, 45–6, King, Tom, Lord King of Bridgwater 71 110 cheap labour and 89 Kirk, David 133, 184 disruptive innovation 39–40, 49, 95 Kitchell, Susan 166 historical precedents and problems 72, Klemperer, Paul 165 73–85 Krueger, Alan 16, 48, 49, 60, 105, 106
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–9, 50 self-driving cars 89, 137 opponents 31, 33–4 sexual assaults 121, 180–1 Disruptive Davids 34–7 sexual discrimination 62, 144, 180 disruptive innovation theory ‘sham self-employment’ 97 39–40, 49 sharing economy 7, 20, 51 New Goliaths 37–40 critics 32–3 regulatory battles 35–7, 47
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–9 disruptive innovation 39, 49 safe harbours 47, 49 enthusiasts 61 self-regulation 36–7, 47 Sharing Economy UK 33, 37 shaping 32–3, 45–9 sharing platforms
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–4, 163 creation of new job business model 100, 101, 160 opportunities 77–8 company law 56 digital work intermediation 14, 15 contractual prohibitions 66 disruptive innovation 39 digital work intermediation 14, 15–16 driver income projections 51 financial losses 22 Driver-Partner Stories 25, 149 founding myth 34–5 driver-rating
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The Dark Side of the Moon What Is Going On? 2. Doublespeak Shaping Narratives Keeping Regulators at Bay Disruptive Davids Regulatory Battles The New Goliaths Disruptive Innovation? Rebranding Work Language Matters Peers, Neighbours, Friends Passive Platforms, Freelancing Entrepreneurs Shaping Regulation Entrepreneurship and Innovation Rethinking Employment Regulation Scrutinizing the Narratives 3. Lost in
The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite
by Duff McDonald · 24 Apr 2017 · 827pp · 239,762 words
new ground in the field of strategy. With the possible exception of his colleague Clayton Christensen, who can be credited with popularizing the concept of “disruptive innovation,” Porter’s work represents the high-water mark of intellectual influence at HBS, at least in terms of having some influence over the language that
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, speaking engagements, and bestselling books revolve. The man who has come closest to replicating the Porter business model is Clayton Christensen, with his theory of disruptive innovation. He’s Porter’s Mini-Me. (To dedicate a chapter to Christensen would be duplicative. It’s the same story, with different names and different
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he makes one fundamental error, which is that he couldn’t have predicted any of these disruptive innovations any more than anybody else,” said Mintzberg. “[So] for him to say that this is going to be a disruptive innovation, I think, is questionable.”8 As far as Nohria is concerned, the fact that five
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., 49, 202, 401 Chia, Robert, 484–85 China, 231, 422 Chouinard, Yves, 362–63 Christensen, Clayton, 8, 303, 378, 501, 503, 554, 572, 573, 576; disruptive innovation, 422–24, 573; Innosight, 409; Institute, 409; speaking fees, 410 Christensen, C. Roland, 156, 258, 279, 308, 326, 355, 364 Church, Alexander Hamilton, 35 CIT
Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future
by Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson · 27 Mar 2017 · 293pp · 78,439 words
leaders need to become less focused as they go about developing winning strategies in those areas. After all, history shows us that sustainable strategies for disruptive innovations emerge from a process of trial-and-error experimentation. The Failure Component A strange idea that has blossomed over the past few years is that
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and a compelling story for what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. The theories on which the guidance is built, particularly the disruptive innovation theory, helps make compelling predictions in the absence of complete data. You also should have underlying metrics that serve as early proof points of success
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-study.cfm. Sources of nonconsumption: Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfield, and Elizabeth J. Altman, The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2008). Xerox’s transformation B strategy: Clark Gilbert, Matthew Eyring, and Richard N. Foster, “Two Routes to Resilience
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are equally grateful for the support, friendship, and spirit of partnership from Innosight cofounder and Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. His seminal work on disruptive innovation continues to have an outsized influence on our own thinking, as does the thought leadership of our friends Vijay Govindarajan, Roger Martin, and Rita McGrath
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words
transformational effect of the technological revolution. Bastions of the old financial order such as banks go to great lengths to defend monopolies and often stymie disruptive innovation. The financial system also runs on outmoded technology and is governed by regulations dating back to the nineteenth century. It is rife with contradictions and
Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less
by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou · 15 Feb 2015 · 400pp · 88,647 words
, the R&D teams at companies like Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft have all included microeconomists to help design business models, pricing strategies and alliances for disruptive innovations. And with the rise of emerging economies like India, China and Brazil, R&D solutions should be fine-tuned to meet the unique market conditions
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operations including in France and Japan. In food and agribusiness, PepsiCo has located its Global Value Innovation Centre in India with the aim of spreading disruptive innovation around the world. In health care, GE is creating a whole new generation of affordable medical devices in its Indian and Chinese R&D centres
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help or ask for help,” notes Knudstorp. Another way to empower staff is to create an unstructured playground where creativity does not violate company rules. (Disruptive innovation, after all, requires people to be disruptive.) Henry Ford, founder of the eponymous motor company, was anything but playful – you would be hard-pressed to
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a big hairy audacious goal (BHAG), such as at least reducing operating costs by half, that requires a radically different solution. “The BHAG motivates our disruptive innovation teams,” says Vats. The GVIC applies the engage and iterate principle (see Chapter 2) for rapid prototyping, market trial and customer feedback. Every disruptive value
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limitation on creativity. Nothing is forbidden. As you have nothing to lose you boldly challenge the status quo. That’s how you come up with disruptive innovation. Renault and Nissan plan to launch the first vehicles built using the CMF-A platform in India in 2015 and later in other emerging markets
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52 digital radiators 89 digital tools 47, 50, 53, 62, 164, 170 for tracking customer needs 28–9, 29–31 digitisation 53, 65–6, 174 disruptive innovation 10–11, 40, 70, 91, 170, 199 “disruptive value solutions” 191–3 distributed energy systems 53–4 distributed manufacturing 9 distribution 9, 54, 57, 96
Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire
by Bruce Nussbaum · 5 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 101,761 words
companies using the same metrics of more established organizations. That made it clear that something else was happening, something else was responsible for these big disruptive innovations, something that we hadn’t yet discovered how to quantify. Frustrated, I began asking around, starting with my contacts at a number of consultancies whose
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that companies really could become more innovative, I was shocked. And every bit as frustrated. What was this all about? Why were all the hugely disruptive innovations coming out of left field? Why were companies that were spending money and time on all the right things failing to come up with the
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products and businesses, Pivoting is a way of reprising creativity’s crucial role in capitalism as a driver of innovation and growth. But how? Most disruptive innovations come from individuals who are leading a cause and who’ve inspired a loyal following to get involved in that community. And yet our investments
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us, help our teams brainstorm a hundred new ideas in an hour, maybe a thousand. Big breakthroughs, what business schools and business managers now call “disruptive innovation,” surely would emerge from all those fresh ideas. Many people in corporate America were playing this way . . . but did these techniques actually work? BusinessWeek successfully
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printing is sweeping the United States and Europe, yet HP is scarcely to be seen in this market. Even when its labs produced a truly disruptive innovation, the Halo conferencing technology, HP didn’t manage to spin it into a successful product, ultimately selling it to Polycom. Many companies have fallen into
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the importance of platforms and platform innovation. Before we had Etsy, Amazon, or eBay, Larry was telling his clients that they should be seeking big, disruptive innovations via their business platforms. Today, with Apple’s huge success, platform innovation is the new orthodoxy; Jenna Wortham, “Etsy Raises $40 Million for International Expansion
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Dickerson, Chad, 165 Digital e-commerce platforms. See E-commerce companies Digital fabrication, 162, 173 Direct equity investing, 245 Discovery Channel design show, 178–79 Disruptive innovations, 28–29, 37, 122 Divergent thinking, 21 DIY (do it yourself) philosophy, 36, 152–56. See also Making Doerr, John, 198 Domain knowledge, 21, 30
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EngAGE organization, 114–15 Entrepreneur builders, 205 Entrepreneur e-commerce platforms. See E-commerce companies Entrepreneurial capitalism, 85–88, 170. See also Indie Capitalism Entrepreneurs disruptive innovations of, 28–29 economic growth and, 241, 245–46 Indie Capitalism and, 249–50 (see also Indie Capitalism) pivoting and, 179–84 types of, 205
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, 256 Spring Health, 69–70 Stanford University, 17, 34–35, 72, 180, 251–52 StarCraft II game, 137 Start-ups creative hubs for, 72–73 disruptive innovations of, 28–29 e-commerce platforms and, 162–66 education and, 121 job creation by, 239 in New York, 181–82 social enterprise and, 158
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account the huge issue of intermittency (the sun doesn’t always shine) that makes solar power problematic as a baseload source of electricity. However, potentially disruptive innovations like the solar subcell developed by German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems that can turn 44.7 percent of sunlight that strikes it into
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by Klaus Schwab · 11 Jan 2016 · 179pp · 43,441 words
, Nov 10 http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2015/11/10/10-neurotechnologies-about-to-transform-brain-enhancement-and-brain-health/ Notes 1 The terms “disruption” and “disruptive innovation” have been much discussed in business and management strategy circles, most recently in Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald, What is
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Disruptive Innovation?, Harvard Business Review, December 2015. While respecting the concerns of Professor Christensen and his colleagues about definitions, I have employed the broader meanings in this
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