Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To answer this latter question, you could consider incorporating the theory of Jobs to be Done , or Jobs Theory, as you think about your business aspirations. Jobs Theory is a framework that helps explain customer behavior. Jobs” arise in our lives every day. What is it that they are seeking in the year to come?

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 25, 2024

To increase the number of mental health professionals of color we could use the Jobs to Be Done Theory to understand why there is a lack of diversity. Jobs Theory is a framework that helps us understand individuals’ behavior. The US has a lack of diversity in its mental health workforce. 05% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 29, 2023

Frequent readers will notice I’m referring to the theory of Jobs to Be Done. Jobs Theory (Jobs) is a framework to better understand customer behavior. Organizing a business model around a customer’s job gives companies a competitive advantage and fuels its growth. How does Cuban do it?

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Unfortunately, that’s a lot easier said than done. In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. What makes an organization innovative? So, what is it exactly that makes an organization innovative and agile?

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment. 40 principles of TRIZ.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

In the course of several interrelated blog posts Paul and I will be talking about innovation, the necessary “ecosystem” for success, why good innovators won’t think about products, services and business models in isolation, and how platforms contribute to greater innovation success. Ecosystems. Seamless experiences.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 3, 2023

Specifically, it will focus on what the theory of Jobs to Be Done may forecast. I’ve written extensively about Jobs Theory in the past, but a quick recap can be summarized as follows: A “job” is the progress someone seeks in a given situation or circumstance. But what would theory predict?

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 25, 2024

Well, recently, we interviewed families across the country and found three Jobs to Be Done spurring their decisions. In fact, one of the three Jobs centered on the simple reality that many kids were struggling in their conventional schools. Why did families pick these options…and why are they continuing post-pandemic?

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this situation, Jobs Theory could provide a helpful framework for finding solutions for loneliness, thus improving our health. Using a Jobs lens could help us reduce loneliness and social isolation in the US Developed by late Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. They are all detrimental to our health and life expectancy.

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Idea to Value

MAY 12, 2020

If you’ve been working in innovation for at least some time, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing people talk about “thinking outside the box”, or the need to create “outside the box innovations”. The phrase has become one of the most overused clichés out there. How are outside the box innovations born? Creating outside the box innovations.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Effectively, I’m wondering if this offering has been designed around individuals’ Jobs to Be Done , or if it’s instead the result of a supply-driven vision to “get healthcare to the whole planet.” Without understanding the job, and organizing around it, organizations are effectively “competing against luck.”

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 28, 2023

million women left the labor force , which accounted for 63% of jobs lost, and an economic loss of $650B. Last year, their Women in The Workplace 2022 report showed that women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rate ever seen. In 2020 and 2021, 1.1 In early 2022, men were reentering the workforce en masse, while women were not.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2023

From completing an MCI bootcamp for policymakers in Uganda and finishing a report on market-creation for Nigeria’s solar sector by breaking down the large projects into weekly tasks that I could easily allocate time and attention to, to launching a Thursday Theory Tips blog series by establishing a disciplined and regular writing schedule.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 27, 2023

This is the first blog of the series. All she needs is to make phone calls, send the occasional text message, and check on her Facebook friends; those are the three jobs she hires a cellphone for. These phones tend to be older version androids that have simple, basic features good enough to get her three jobs done.

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IdeaScale

JULY 25, 2017

My kids are always asking for help on tasks that I feel can easily be done by them. Daddy wipe my nose,” “hold my blanket,” “help me down,” etc. All of which they have done on their own multiple times a day, but suddenly they decided they needed help. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

One of the most controversial, and perhaps even misunderstood topics in innovation are the roles of risk and luck for innovation success. Do you have to get lucky to innovate successfully, or can you make your own luck? Is it always inherently risky to try to innovate, or can you manage risk by making smart decisions? What does risk mean?

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Paul Hobcraft and I have been writing a series of blog posts about innovation, ecosystems, platforms and what we believe customers will ultimately demand: seamless experiences. Take, for example, "jobs to be done" methodologies. Christensen and Ulwick propose the idea that customers hire products to do jobs for them.

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 30, 2023

Using a powerful theory and methodology called Jobs to Be Done —developed and validated through extensive research in many sectors—the Institute set out to uncover the factors that motivate teachers to use new practices (i.e., According to the theory, teachers change their practices when they have an unmet “Job” they need to fulfill.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Start with the simplest tools that get the job done. The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era In an age of rapid technological advancements, companies everywhere are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to modernize their operations. As companies scale up, they gain more customers, resources and clout.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation management is a tough job. In this blog, we will recommend strategies for choosing the best features for your innovation roadmap along with the do’s and don’ts of feature prioritization. . In this strategy, feature prioritization is done by understanding which problems are not being solved at present.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). I'm ready to dive back in, to write about innovation, to lead innovation projects and to build up an innovation competency in the firms where people want to get good work done.

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InnovationTraining.org

JUNE 14, 2022

In this blog post, we’ll share some of the most popular design thinking exercises and activities, validated by research shared in a popular design thinking book, the Design Thinking Toolbox. Jobs to be done. Interviews. One of the simplest ways to do this is to simply talk with your users and potential users. Empathy mapping.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 12, 2021

If decision-making related to innovation is done poorly in an organization, none of the above will make a real difference. By definition , it’s about doing something new that hasn’t been done before. What’s more, your team hasn’t done this before , so you can’t create a very realistic project plan for implementing it either.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? It turns out that successful incentive programs require a flexible, multi-faceted approach.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 9, 2022

Authentic Leaders Delight in the Success of Others. The cornerstone to growing as a company is teamwork. Teamwork is about getting excited for our peers’ wins and helping them win. Authentic leaders primary focus is caring for others and championing their success. Employees need to feel supported instead of being tested. Be a Good Follower.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

In the course of several interrelated blog posts Paul and I will be talking about innovation, the necessary “ecosystem” for success, why good innovators won’t think about products, services and business models in isolation, and how platforms contribute to greater innovation success. Ecosystems. Seamless experiences.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 13, 2022

The reason for this is that too often leaders think their job is to have people follow them. How to and Why Be Genuine as a Leader. There is a significant difference between leadership and management. Leaders create and move things forward; managers handle things. Leaders lead people, managers manage stuff. Self-Awareness.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 30, 2018

And it’s of great value to offer a sense of purpose in the workplace : people feel more engaged, have better job satisfaction, and even perform their tasks with more accuracy. All of these people, in general, have a genuine motivation for putting in the hard work that has to be done. What sets nonprofits from other organizations?

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

I've written before, both on this blog and on the blog I share with Paul Hobcraft about platforms and ecosystems about the need for seamless experiences. Engineers believed they'd done their jobs well because the product did its job well. It's our stipulation that the future is about seamless experiences.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2021

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. In this article, we’ll discuss design thinking and the impact that using it can have on the innovative process.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JULY 7, 2021

As readers of this blog (and you know who you are) are bound to know by now, I am a movie fanatic. Take the blue pill and go back to your regular job, toiling away on the TPS reports (hint: movie reference) and supporting the overall machine. I love good movies, average movies, older movies and so forth. Very Alice in Wonderland-esque.

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Planview

MARCH 8, 2024

She spoke at length about the first decade of her job life, when women officers were rare in the Indian banking sector. In fact, International Women’s Day (IWD) is now an official holiday in more than 25 countries, with thousands of marches, debates, concerts, and talks taking place each year. Planview is proud to participate.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 27, 2023

Today’s guest blog post comes from Todd Dunn, Vice President of Innovation at Advocate Health. Below, Todd shares his three-step process, grounded in Christensen’s theories, on how to shift innovation from a vague buzzword to a clear way to make progress. Read on to learn from how this innovator in action is leveraging theory for progress.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 19, 2018

I have a somewhat (cough) vested interest in writing a blog post about why you should work with an innovation consultant. The real purpose of this blog is to answer the question: why should I work with an innovation consultant? In many organizations this isn't someone's job so it doesn't get done. But I digress.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 9, 2021

The dreaded "day job" That's why so much new product development and innovation is accomplished in teams of people who are working beyond their normal responsibilities. These folks have a "day job" that is their primary responsibility and sole source of advancement and compensation. As if there is a magic number!

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 4, 2024

As I note in the analysis, Amazon may well “win” with this offering if they are able to better serve consumers’ Jobs to Be Done than existing offerings in the marketplace. So, while retail giants may not “disrupt” health care this year, it’s quite possible they will launch services that better serve consumer or customer Jobs.

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