Clayton Christensen Quotes - Page 3

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• Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

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  Ocean, Years, Yield

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• If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

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  Fall, Believe, Data

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.

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  Focus, Groups, Use

  Clayton Christensen (2015). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.206, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

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  Jobs, Mean, Odds

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• Another thing I've observed is how critical the role of the CEO is when a technology truly is disruptive. In looking back on companies that have successfully launched independent disruptive business units, the CEO always had a foot in both camps. Never have they succeeded when they spin something off in order to get it off the CEO's agenda. The CEOs that did this had extraordinary personal self-confidence, and almost always they were the founders of the companies.

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  Independent, Self Confidence, Technology

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.

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  School, Years, Mind

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• Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

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  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

  "layton Christensen wants to transform capitalism". Interview with Jeff Howe, www.wired.com. February 12, 2013.

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• If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

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  Police, Enough, Ifs

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• If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

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  Perspective, Discipline, Marketing

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.

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  Technology, Odds, Hands

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

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  Care, Adherence, Helping

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• The personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have a computer and use it, and it was enabled by the development of the micro processor. The micro processor made it so simple to design and build a computer that IB could throw in together in a garage. And so, you have that simplifying technology as a part of every disruptive innovation. It then becomes an innovation when the technology is embedded in a different business model that can take the simplified solution to the market in a cost-effective way.

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  Technology, Simple, Design

  Source: bigthink.com

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• History is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root as a toy, got Digital Equipment Corporation. Kodak missed the boat for a long time on digital imaging. Sony was slow to get MP3 technology. Microsoft doesn't know what to do with open source software. And so on.

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  Technology, Long, Computer

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.

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  Attitude, Humble, Humility

  Clayton M. Christensen (2017). “How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)”, p.14, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.

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  Children, Self Esteem, Things That Are Hard

  Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen (2013). “Disruptive Innovation: The Christensen Collection (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, The Innovator's DNA, and Harvard Business Review article "How Will You Measure Your Life?") (4 Items)”, p.11, Harvard Business Press

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• Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Men

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• Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.

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  Important, Succeed

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• Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

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  Innovation, Mold, Process

  Clayton M. Christensen (1999). “Innovation and the General Manager”, Irwin Professional Pub

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• There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

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  Business, Ideas, Process

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• At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people with a lot of money and a lot of skill have access to them. A disruptive technology is an innovation that simplifies the product and makes it so affordable that a whole new population of people can now have one and use it at the beginning for simple applications, and then it improves to the point that it makes the old technology obsolete.

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  Technology, Simple, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.

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  Company, Customers

  Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen (2013). “Disruptive Innovation: The Christensen Collection (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, The Innovator's DNA, and Harvard Business Review article "How Will You Measure Your Life?") (4 Items)”, p.113, Harvard Business Press

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• If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making a better theory.

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  Believe, Anomalies, Scientist

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.

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  Running, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Every time you take someone figuratively by the hand and introduce him or her to Jesus Christ, you will feel how deeply our Savior loves you and loves the person whose hand is in yours.

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  Jesus, Love You, Hands

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• In general, the questions that are on our mind are the same questions that have been driving our work over the past decade. How do we bring order to this messy, unpredictable world of innovation? How can we dramatically improve the chances of creating a successful new-growth business? How can we do this again and again? More specifically, it has become very clear that the fundamental paradigms of market segmentation and branding are badly broken - and we're working on developing more useful theories for these dimensions of innovation.

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  Successful, Past, Broken

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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