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Innovation for Executives

Innovation for Executives Prof. Clayton Christensen Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School, Boston, MA 02163 Following is the text of a five-minute chat between Prof. Clayton Christensen, the bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the IJIS Editor-in-Chief Praveen Gupta at the World Innovation Forum (May 5-6, 2009) held in New York. Publisher is thankful to Prof. Christensen for sharing nuggets of innovation with readers of International Journal of Innovation Science. PG: How would you tell the innovation problem to a CEO in America? CC: It is hard to see that there are complications in running a successful company. The first classic problem is that there is misplacement of the responsibility to innovate at the wrong level at the company. That is a softer problem that nobody has really cracked yet: that is if you are the manager of an operating business, your job is to deliver numbers. You might think that your job is to deliver products or services, but really you are delivering numbers to the corporation. And, the numbers you are obligated to deliver were agreed upon 18 months http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Innovation Science Emerald Publishing

Innovation for Executives

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Prof. Clayton Christensen Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School, Boston, MA 02163 Following is the text of a five-minute chat between Prof. Clayton Christensen, the bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the IJIS Editor-in-Chief Praveen Gupta at the World Innovation Forum (May 5-6, 2009) held in New York. Publisher is thankful to Prof. Christensen for sharing nuggets of innovation with readers of International Journal of Innovation Science. PG: How would you tell the innovation problem to a CEO in America? CC: It is hard to see that there are complications in running a successful company. The first classic problem is that there is misplacement of the responsibility to innovate at the wrong level at the company. That is a softer problem that nobody has really cracked yet: that is if you are the manager of an operating business, your job is to deliver numbers. You might think that your job is to deliver products or services, but really you are delivering numbers to the corporation. And, the numbers you are obligated to deliver were agreed upon 18 months

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International Journal of Innovation Science – Emerald Publishing

Published: Nov 1, 2009

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