Clayton Christensen on How to Create New Growth Businesses in a Risk-Minimizing Environment Can innovation be managed? While many long perceived innovation to be random, research by Professor Christensen suggests that successful innovations adhere to a basic pattern. Managers that learn the principles behind the pattern can spot seemingly invisible opportunities which can lead to growth and innovation. This will allow managers to create new growth businesses while continuing to flawlessly execute their current core ones. Participants in this program will learn: about the power and methodology of disruptive innovation how to create new growth businesses how to balance the allocations of resources across projects that sustain the heath of current businesses and those that create new ones how to create the products that customers demand

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School His research and teaching interests center on the management of technological innovation, developing organizational capabilities, and finding new markets for new technologies. A seasoned entrepreneur, Christensen has founded three successful companies. CPS Corporation, is an advanced materials manufacturing company that he founded with several MIT professors. Innosight is a consulting and training company focused on problems of strategy, innovation, and growth that Christensen founded with several of his former students. Innosight Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on disruptive innovations in the health care market. In 1982 Professor Christensen was named a White House Fellow, and served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. He is author or co-author of five books: including the best sellers, The Innovator's Dilemma; The Innovator's Solution, and Seeing What's Next.

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