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Disruptive Strategy

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Duration

6 Weeks

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Course Mode

Self Study

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Assignments

Included

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Accreditation

Available

Program Overview

World-class faculty..
Edge-of-your-seat online learning..
Global peer collaboration and networking..
Real-world, case-based learning..

Pre-requisites

Our easy online application is free, and no special documentation is required. All applicants must be at least 18 years of age, proficient in English, and committed to learning and engaging with fellow participants throughout the course. We confirm enrollment eligibility within one week of your application.

What you will learn?

Become fluent in disruptive innovation theory.
Assess new opportunities and potential threats.
Discover jobs to be done and develop frameworks to better understand customer needs.
Acquire techniques for executive-level strategy development.
Organize for innovation and maintain a disruptive scope.
Gain confidence articulating complex viewpoints.

About this Specialization

Disruptive Strategy enables you to make innovation a reality. Created by Clayton Christensen, who coined the theory of disruptive innovation, this online course will equip you with the skills and techniques to develop executive-level strategy, organize for innovation, and discover customer jobs to be done..

Syllabus


Introduction: Lenses on the World     

   Case studies

  • Intel: Learn how Professor Christensen helped Intel Chairman Andy Grove confront a disruptive threat by showing him how to think, not what to think.

Takeaways

  • Adopt a strategic mindset

  • Articulate your strategic questions

Key Exercises

  • Generating Your Strategic Question

Module 1: Aligning with Innovation and Disruption

Case Studies 

  • WR Hambrecht and the Google IPO: A New Approach to Investment Banking

  • Honda Motor Company: Entering a New Market

  • CircleUp: Re-imagining Private Equity

Takeaways

  • Identify the three types of innovation and predict when they will happen

  • Harness disruption and position your business for new growth

Key Exercises

  • Team Discussion: Blockbuster's Demise

  • Team Project: The New Age of Financial Advice

 

Module 2: Discovering Customer Jobs to be Done

Case Studies 

  •  The Walt Disney Company: Expanding the Theme Park Business

  •  The Godrej Group: Understanding Refrigeration Needs in India

  •  Minute Clinic: A New Approach to Healthcare Delivery

Takeaways

  •  Focus on what causes your customers to buy your products and why

  •  Achieve differentiation, better margins, and avoid disruption

Key Exercise

  • One-on-One Discussion & Interview Assignment: Discovering Customer Jobs to be Done

  • Team Discussion: Innovation in Yogurt

 

Module 3: Organizing for Innovation 

Case Studies 

  •  Nypro, Inc.: Seeking Growth Through a New Product Line

  •  Charles Schwab: Trading in the New World of Internet

  •  EMC: Merging Competing Products Through an Acquisition

Takeaways

  • Identify what your organization can do and cannot do

  • Align your resources, processes, and profit formula to develop an innovative culture and position your business for growth

Key Exercises

  •  Brainstorming for Final Paper: Examine Your Organization’s Resources, Processes, and Profit Formula to Foster Growth and Success in the Future


Module 4: Maintaining a Disruptive Scope     

Case Studies 

  • Music Industry: Producing and Performing in a New Age

  • MediaTek: Expanding Accessibility to New Technologies in Asia

Takeaways

  •  Build a strong intuition to “skate” to where profit will be as your industry evolves

  •  Determine which operations are critical to be done in-house and which operations can be outsourced

Key Exercises

  •  Reflection: Determining Ways in Which Your Organization Could Use a More Integrated or Specialized Strategy

  •  Reflection: Discovering the Scope for Your Organization


Module 5: Managing the Strategy Development Process         

Case Studies

  •  OnStar: General Motor’s New Innovation

  •  Netflix: The Evolution of Home Entertainment

  •  Sears, IBM, and AOL: Understanding Internet Consumption During the Boom of the Digital Age

Takeaways

  •    Effectively balance the deliberate and emergent strategy processes to unlock  innovation within your organization

  •    Determine which “type” of money will empower new business ideas to flourish

Key Exercises

  • Reflection: Examining How to Align Your Organization’s Profit Formula and Stated Strategy

  • Team Discussion: Identifying "Hardened" Companies

Institute Information

Established in 2001 and adeptly run by the Sringeri Mutt with the benign blessings of Sri Sri Bharathitheertha Mahaswamigal, the College believes in keeping a proactive approach for the overall development of the students.

ASIET is the first self-financing technical education centre to be awarded the ISO 9001: 2008 certification. Our Alumni are prestigious and many occupy responsible positions across prestigious organizations in India and abroad. The institute is affiliated to the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, accredited by NBA and approved by AICTE.

Harvard Business School Online launched as HBX in 2014 to deepen the School’s impact and broaden its reach, all while staying true to the HBS mission: to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The nuance? Now we could reach those leaders wherever they are—in the world, in their careers, and in their lives. Since, HBS Online has educated 100,000-plus learners from more than 175 countries via our innovative online platform.

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