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HBS Working Knowledge
August 9, 2004
Anthony, Johnson, & Eyring |
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation By conducting a series of diagnostics, companies in any industry can quickly identify the most promising opportunities -- and begin to create new-growth businesses.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 6, 2004
Christensen, Anthony & Roth |
The Innovator's Battle Plan Clayton Christensen's new book, Seeing What's Next, proposes that great firms can be undone by disruptors who analyze and exploit an incumbent's strengths and motivations. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2009 |
Swallowing the Innovator's Rx Capitalize on the new age in healthcare with "disruptive innovation." |
CIO
November 15, 2003
Christensen & Raynor |
What Customers Really Want Is for You to Do Their Jobs To make innovative products that drive growth, companies must forget about demographics, product attributes and market size data, and focus on the specific jobs customers need to get done. |
InternetNews
September 13, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Oracle + Siebel = CRM Consolidation Oracle's $5.85 billion acquisition bid of Siebel Systems stirs another debate over best-of-breed vs. integrated suite in software deployment. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2004
Michael Singer |
Ellison 'Green' with Envy Analysts debate whether Oracle is after SAP's high-end or Microsoft's mid-tier. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 18, 2008
Martha Lagace |
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education As an industry, education has certain elements that have made the market difficult to penetrate and lasting reform hard to come by. |
InternetNews
June 7, 2004
Michael Singer |
PeopleSoft's Standing Debated at Trial The DoJ's argument to block Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft hinges on the Global 2000's view of competition in the ERP marketplace. |
CRM
September 30, 2014
Maria Minsker |
Oracle Gets Serious About the Cloud at OpenWorld 2014 Oracle's updates customer experience cloud promises deep integration and extreme innovation. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Oracle's $19 Billion Payoff For the past few years, Oracle's Larry Ellison has talked about the benefits of consolidation. Now, it looks like the company is seeing some of those benefits. Investors, take note. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 6, 2003
Jim Heskett |
Is "the Innovator's Solution" to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act? Long-term growth and profitability are elusive targets for many organizations. The former often is more difficult to achieve than the latter, especially for companies competing in "mature" markets. This presents a problem for today's manager to the degree that investors reward growth more than profitability. |
InternetNews
June 30, 2004
Michael Singer |
Ellison Rounds Up Oracle's Defense The DoJ grills the CEO about his fourth attempt to acquire PeopleSoft. |
CFO
April 1, 2005
Russ Banham |
People Problems What will Oracle do now that it's finally bought PeopleSoft? PeopleSoft customers want to know. |
CIO
April 1, 2001
Edward Prewitt |
Disruption is Good - Interview: Clayton Christensen The Harvard Business School professor talks about how CIOs can recognize disruptive innovations and rally their companies to take action... |
National Defense
January 2007
Johnson & McLaughlin |
To Defeat Terrorists, Military Services Must Innovate, Disrupt By any measure, reforming the half-trillion dollar, 3 million-member Defense Department is one of the largest innovation projects in history. |
InternetNews
January 19, 2005
Michael Singer |
Ellison: Partners Key to Merger Success Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said key partnerships will help make the acquisition of PeopleSoft a complete success. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Oracle's $7.7 Billion Migraine The company dislikes what PeopleSoft is doing, but it's still buying. |
InternetNews
November 8, 2004
Roy Mark |
Oracle Prepared to Drop PeopleSoft Bid Oracle will drop its efforts to block PeopleSoft's defense to Oracle's hostile takeover bid if PeopleSoft's shareholders fail to tender a majority of their shares by Nov. 19, according to an Oracle letter sent to a Delaware court. |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Jim Kerstetter |
The Soft Underbelly Of Software Deals Consolidation within the software industry can help to safeguard growth, but it's notoriously tough to pull off. |
InternetNews
July 1, 2004
Michael Singer |
More Mega Mergers if Oracle Succeeds The quest for PeopleSoft was the tip of the iceberg, say analysts. |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Oracle's Bipolar Quarter The database maker meets expectations, and hints it may not need PeopleSoft after all. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 4, 2007
Lynda M. Applegate |
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage Jumpstarting innovation is a critical business imperative. Executives realize that radical change is needed but do not feel equipped to make such change. |
InternetNews
December 30, 2003
Clint Boulton |
Oracle Secures $1.5B Credit Line The business software maker arranges for an additional $1.5 billion credit line in anticipation of a possible takeover of PeopleSoft. |
Bank Technology News
January 2005
Gregory Goth |
The People(soft) V. Larry Ellison The contentious battle between Oracle and PeopleSoft was always more about money than customers. But now that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has achieved a hard-won and expensive victory, he and his team must convince clients to stick around. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Oracle's Softwar? The database king ups its guidance as it prepares for a battle with rival SAP. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Himelstein & Kerstetter |
Tech M&A: The Long, Cold Winter May Be Over Oracle's move for PeopleSoft was just the beginning. Investment bankers say their phones have been ringing off the hook and their workloads have shot up in the last month. Calendars are packed with brainstorming sessions. Merger discussions that were lukewarm at best are heating up. |
CFO
August 1, 2003
John Verity |
The Urge to Merge As software companies fight it out, must customers pay the price? |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Larry Ellison Doesn't Dig the Net According to its CEO, Oracle's strategy will not include a major shift to web-based business software anytime soon. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Has Larry Ellison Gone Crazy? With the PeopleSoft proposal unresolved, the Oracle chief preaches more acquisitions. |
Entrepreneur
December 2005
Chris Penttila |
All Shook Up You can't control disruptive innovations, but you can learn to predict them - and to react to them in a positive way. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Oracle Buys Sun in IBM's Wake Oracle reveals a few details of its strategic vision for the merger with Sun. |
Fast Company
November 2003
Polly LaBarre |
The Industrialized Revolution Clay Christensen's idea of "disruptive innovation" made him the unintended mascot of the dotcom boom. So what's he thinking now? |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2006
Tom Taulli |
2006 in Review: Oracle The brash company had a smashing 2006. Certainly, Oracle investors have nothing to complain about. |
CRM
October 2012 |
Oracle Recognizes the Need for Change Mark Hurd is no stranger to big success. In his five years as president and CEO of HP, he was credited with righting the company's financially struggling ship. Now, starting his third year as president of Oracle, he is steering yet another big ship on a completely new course. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2011
Anders Bylund |
My Marketing Mistake Is Bigger Than Yours! Oracle is walking a fine line here. |
CRM
December 1, 2005
Alexandra DeFelice |
Oracle and Siebel: What Does It Mean for Customers? End-users are looking for answers as they wait for the planned acquisition to close. |
InternetNews
September 9, 2004
Michael Singer |
Oracle Prevails in DoJ Suit to Block PeopleSoft The company said the decision removes a significant roadblock to the acquisition. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 13, 2003 |
Is "The Innovator's Solution" to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act? Readers Respond The worst thing that can happen to a healthy business is to run into problems while you were spending your time on disruptive innovations... There is no easy pathway in adopting a disruptive technology... etc. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Oracle: Seeing Cash While some may say the database software maker is an overvalued, aging dog that isn't worth your time because of anemic growth in sales and net income, that argument misses the big picture: Cash. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Halloween Treat: Oracle The database king has tasty treats stored away for enterprising investors. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle to PeopleSoft: You're Fired PeopleSoft employees wait anxiously for 5,000 FedEx packages containing pink slips. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2004
Tim Beyers |
The Case for OracleSoft The author makes an argument for what Oracle and PeopleSoft together could mean for investors. |
InternetNews
December 26, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Enterprise Software in 2008: Consolidation and Chaos Loom VCs will lavish more attention on data-management startups as leading vendors snap up niche players. And an acquisition of SAP? It's not as crazy as it sounds. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Kill Your Phone Is the old-fashioned voice call on the verge of death by disruption? |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Does Oracle Foresee Trouble? All of the deal-making at Oracle could be masking problems in the database business. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Dueling Fools: Oracle Bull Rebuttal All the acquisitions are adding to owner earnings. There's simply no reasonable way to call Oracle's shares expensive. |
InternetNews
January 25, 2005
Erin Joyce |
IBM Acquires Corio in On Demand Play Cash deal adds more consultants to IBM's ranks and weight to its hosted application business lines. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: Oracle Prophecies Shortly, investors will get another earnings report from database and business software giant Oracle, followed by what promises to be an entertaining conference call. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Software Meat Eaters It's war in the software business. According to PeopleSoft's management, Oracle's hostile bid and antitrust lawsuit is generating bad PR for the firm, which has had "substantial" adverse impact on the company's business. |
InternetNews
July 2, 2004
Michael Singer |
Oracle Trial Comes Full Circle It began with Microsoft/SAP acquisition plans and ended with IBM 's notes on how to create FUD. |
