HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018
by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Robert S. Kaplan, Daniel Kahneman, Roger L. Martin
Right Tech, Wrong Time
by Ron Adner and Rahul Kapoor
FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS, “creative destruction” has been a source of fascination at top-tier business schools and in magazines like this one. The almost obsessive interest in this topic is unsurprising, given the ever-changing, never-ending list of transformative threats—which today include the internet of things, 3-D printing, cloud computing, personalized medicine, alternative energy, and virtual reality.
Our understanding of the shifts that disrupt businesses, industries, and sectors has profoundly improved over the past 20 years: We know far more about how to identify those shifts and what dangers they pose to incumbent firms. But the timing of technological change remains a mystery. Even ...