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Discovery Skill #1: Associating-How Making Connections Across Seemingly Unrelated Fields and Disciplines Triggers Your Innovative Powers
Dyer, Jeffrey H.; Gregersen, Hal B.; Christensen, Clayton M.Book Chapter HBS-8370BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationWhen it comes to disruptive innovation, you don't have to start from scratch to create something new. Asking questions and fusing knowledge across disciplines and industries are the keys to improving your aptitude for association, a cognitive skill that lies at the core of innovation. In this chapter, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen teach you how to strengthen your capacity for associating by describing how companies suc...Starting at €8.20
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Discovery Skill #3: Observing-How Watching Your Customers, Other Companies, and the World Around You Can Lead to Game-Changing Innovation
Dyer, Jeffrey H.; Gregersen, Hal B.; Christensen, Clayton M.Book Chapter HBS-8372BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationDelivery-driven leaders often become so consumed by the pressures of running an organization that they never pause to take a look at what's going on around them. But disruptive innovators like Ratan Tata, creator of the Nano car, whose journey of discovery is described in this chapter, are constantly on the lookout for jobs people need to get done and workarounds, or partial solutions, that can be the answers to everyday problems. In this chapter...Starting at €8.20
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The DNA of Disruptive Innovators: The Five Discovery Skills That Enable Innovative Leaders to "Think Different"
Dyer, Jeffrey H.; Gregersen, Hal B.; Christensen, Clayton M.Book Chapter HBS-8369BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationHow do you become an innovator? Fortunately, innovators are not born-they're made. In this chapter, authors Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen team up with Clayton Christensen, author of the bestselling "The Innovator's Dilemma," to explore the common traits shared by all innovators and demonstrate that these are learned behaviors, not cognitive capabilities. They reveal that today's top thinkers-such as Apple's Steve Jobs-achieve success by actively en...Starting at €8.20
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The Resource Pathways Framework: Solving the "Build, Borrow, or Buy" Growth Dilemma
Capron, Laurence; Mitchell, WillBook Chapter HBS-9497BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationChapter 1 of "Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma" lays out a "resource pathways framework" that helps leaders decide whether to build (innovate internally), borrow (enter into contracts, alliances, or joint ventures), or buy (merge or acquire) when they need to obtain new resources for growth. In addition to contrasting two strategies--one successful, one not--used by Compaq and HP, the authors reveal how the framework applies to d...Starting at €8.20