Clayton Christensen - Publications - Faculty & Research

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summer 2001
Article

Assessing Your Organization's Innovation Capabilities

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Organizations; Innovation and Invention

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August 2019 (Revised December 2021)
Module Note

Final Thoughts as You Seek to Build and Sustain Success

By: Clayton M. Christensen

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August 2019 (Revised December 2021)
Module Note

There Is Good Money and There Is Bad Money

By: Clayton M. Christensen

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July 2019
Module Note

Interdependence vs. Modularity: Getting the Scope of the Business Right

By: Clayton M. Christensen

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July 2019 (Revised July 2020)
Module Note

Disruptive Innovation: How Can We Beat Our Most Powerful Competitors?

By: Clayton M. Christensen

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September 2005 (Revised August 2006)
Supplement

What's the Big Idea? (B)

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Innovation and Invention

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September 2003
Teaching Note

What's the BIG Idea? (TN)

By: Clayton M. Christensen

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June 2001
Case

Gallardo's Salsa

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

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April 1999
Teaching Note

Issues in Technology Strategy TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Provides instructors with an overview for the module in the Managing Innovation course, Issues in Technology Strategy. Provides an overview of the frameworks introduced in the module that can help managers in their efforts to formulate strategies relating to several... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Investment; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Research; Technology Adoption; Technology Industry

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April 1999
Teaching Note

Understanding and Building Organizations' Capabilities to Innovate: Managing Innovation: Overview TN for Module 4

By: Clayton M. Christensen

An overview teaching note showing instructors how to link together the concepts students should learn from discussing the cases in the fourth module of the Managing Innovation course. Summarizes the "Resources, Processes, & Values" framework of organizational... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Framework; Innovation and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Value

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April 1999 (Revised March 2000)
Background Note

Discovering What Has Already Been Discovered: Why Did Your Customers Hire Your Product?

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Describes a methodology for identifying markets for new technologies and for defining the highest value attributes of new products or services. It helps innovators escape the trap of incremental improvements to established product concepts by asking a straightforward... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Markets; Product; Technology Adoption; Value

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March 1998
Teaching Note

Managing Innovation at Nypro (A) and (B) TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Teaching Note for (9-696-061) and (9-697-057). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

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July 1997
Case

We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corporation's Cardiac Pacemaker Business

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Illustrates how a new management team at Medtronic's Cardiac Pacemaker business reversed a steep decline in market share by adopting certain management principles for new product development: clarifying strategy, aggregating project planning, accommodating the number... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Health; Technology; Change Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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