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Catching the Wave (Spanish version)
Bower, Joseph L.; Christensen, Clayton M.Article HBS-95103Service and Operations Managementthey stay close to their customers. To remain at the top of their industries, managers must first be able to spot disruptive technologies. To pursue these technologies, managers must protect them from the processes and incentives that are geared to serving mainstream customers. And the only way to do that is to create organizations that are completely independent of the mainstream business.Starting at €8.20
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Threats to the Global Market System: Ten Potential "Disruptors" of Global Capitalism
Bower, Joseph L.; Leonard, Herman B.; Paine, Lynn S.Book Chapter HBS-8617BC-EThe World Bank forecast for the year 2030 provides reason for optimism. The forces of global market capitalism seem to be gathering strength, and long-term prospects show reasonable economic growth. But there are also challenges. As we have already seen, the benefits of growth will not be evenly spread across countries--or even within countries--and collateral damage to the environment will be significant. Scarce resources will be consumed, and t...Starting at €8.20
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The Business Response: Five Views of the Role of Business in Ensuring a Viable Future for Market Capitalism
Bower, Joseph L.; Leonard, Herman B.; Paine, Lynn S.Book Chapter HBS-8619BC-EWhat should be done about the challenges facing market capitalism? And more specifically, what is the role of business in combating potential disruptors and ensuring the system's health and future viability? In this chapter, Harvard Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine examine four views that emerged from their discussion forums with prominent business leaders in Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the United ...Starting at €8.20
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Dynamically Balancing Supply and Demand: Driving Innovation to the Core
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5107BC-EStrategyTo build and sustain a robust innovation capability, your company needs to carefully manage both the supply and demand side of innovation. This chapter describes specific principles and techniques for dynamically managing this important equation. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates."Starting at €8.20
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Managing and Multiplying Resources: Maximizing the Return on Innovation
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5109BC-EStrategyWithin most organizations, there are formidable barriers that prevent would-be innovators from getting access to the talent and capital they need to execute their ideas. This chapter looks at examples of companies that have successfully overcome barriers to funding radical innovation by instituting processes that help them effectively manage and multiply available resources. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for...Starting at €8.20
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Constructing an Innovation Architecture
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5110BC-EStrategyWhile you need a lot of ideas and experiments to increase your chances of success, you also want your company's innovation efforts to accumulate over time so that you can build a defensible and differentiated competitive position in the marketplace. This chapter explains how your company can effectively build and deploy an innovation architecture to create a powerful strategy for revolutionizing your industry. This chapter is excerpted from "Inn...Starting at €8.20
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Innovating Across the Business Model
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5112BC-EStrategySome of the most successful innovations of our time have been business model innovations that break from company or industry norms in meaningful and sometimes radical ways. This chapter shows you how to take your company's business model apart and consider each component as an opportunity for game-changing innovation. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates."Starting at €8.20
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Producing a Torrent of New Opportunities: Enhancing the Innovation Pipeline
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5113BC-EStrategyThis chapter outlines five design rules for enlarging and enhancing your innovation pipeline so that it becomes capable of pumping out a continual flow of wealth-creating new products, services, strategies, and businesses. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates."Starting at €8.20
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The New Innovation Challenge
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5116BC-EStrategyIn today's innovation-based economy, where organic growth and strategic renewal are the new business mantras, either companies learn to build a systematic capability for innovation or they risk becoming obsolete. This chapter profiles innovation leaders to help you begin thinking about boosting your company's innovation performance in a dramatic and enduring way. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transformin...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Foundation of Novel Strategic Insights: Making Innovation a Systematic Capability
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5127BC-EStrategyHow do radical innovators come up with breakthrough ideas? In this chapter, the authors discuss four essential perspectives, or discovery lenses, and describe how innovators have used them to uncover powerful new insights and opportunities. Hands-on tools and techniques for using each lens, and specific criteria for evaluating the quality of prospective insights are included. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint fo...Starting at €8.20