Its approach is the result of in-depth work with companies such as Motorola, Aetna, Microsoft, Unilever, and the government of Singapore - all of which have applied its thinking to manage various aspects of innovation. In the course of Innosight’s work it has uncovered defined patterns of successful innovations. It has developed a growth process that allows clients to recognize these patterns systematically and react in ways that maximize resonance with customers while minimizing competitive threats. Innosight’s unique methodologies and proprietary tools convert the quest for innovation and growth into a predictable and reliable process.

Fueling its innovation insights are the ideas of its founder, Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, whose books on innovation have sold over one million copies. Christensen’s first book, The Innovator's Dilemma, caused leaders to address the urgency of disruptive change. Christensen's latest works, The Innovator's Solution and Seeing What's Next, help guide Innosight's thinking on how to make successful innovation predictable and how to forecast industry winners and losers.

Clayton M. Christensen

Harvard Business School Professor and Innosight Co-founder

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on the management of technological innovation, developing organizational capabilities, and finding new markets for new technologies.

Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Christensen served as chairman and president of CPS Corporation, a firm that he co-founded with several MIT professors in 1984 which is now a publicly traded company. CPS is a leading developer of products and manufacturing processes using advanced materials.

Christensen holds a B.A. in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Christensen received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. He was awarded a DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.

Christensen won the Production and Operations Management Society's 1991 William Abernathy Award, presented to the author of the best paper in the management of technology; the Newcomen Society’s award for the best paper in business history in 1993; and the 1995 McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review. Christensen’s book, The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997. He collaborated with Michael Raynor on The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, which was published in October 2003. He is also author with Scott D. Anthony and Erik Roth of Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change, published in 2004. Read more about Clayton Christensen at www.claytonchristensen.com.

Clark Gilbert

Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School; Innosight Director

Clark Gilbert is an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at the Harvard Business School. He teaches the Entrepreneurial Manager Course in the first year of the MBA program and has served as the co-director of faculty recruiting for his unit.

Professor Gilbert's research focuses on corporate innovation and the challenges of entrepreneurship in large, established firms. His doctoral research examined how the newspaper industry responded to the Internet by comparing the new media ventures of the top 100 newspapers in the United States. An article based upon that research received the Robert Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award in the Academy of Management's Business Policy and Strategy Division. The article was also published in the 2001 edition of the Academy of Management's Best Paper Proceedings. Professor Gilbert has also written cases on corporate entrepreneurship in companies such as Knight Ridder, Intel and SAP.

Professor Gilbert graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1994, where he was his department's valedictorian. He earned a masters degree from Stanford's Center for East Asian Studies in 1995, where he examined joint ventures between U.S. and Japanese companies. He also received his D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 2001. His research was awarded the George S. Dively Award for Distinguished Pre-thesis Research.

Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Gilbert worked as a consultant at the Monitor Group. Today he consults widely to the media, healthcare, and technology industries. Clients include: Guidant, KnightRidder, and State Farm. Professor Gilbert also sits on the board of several start-up companies, including Innosight, a research and consultancy firm focused on disruptive innovation

Scott Anthony

Innosight Partner

As a partner in Innosight, Scott has worked with both Fortune 500 and start-up companies in industries such as telecommunications, consumer products, medical devices, software, primary materials, petrochemicals and communications equipment. Additionally, he led a multi-month project to help the government of Singapore understand how to create an environment that fosters entrepreneurialism and innovation. He has been an integral part of developing Innosight’s methodology to implement the ideas in The Innovator's Solution, and has run training workshops and given speeches to both senior management teams and broad audiences.



Scott is the co-author (with Christensen) of Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (Harvard Business School Publishing, 2004). He has published numerous articles and case studies, and serves as the editor of Strategy & Innovation, a bimonthly newsletter published by Innosight and Harvard Business School Publishing.



Prior to joining Innosight, Scott was a Senior Researcher with Christensen, managing a group that worked to further Christensen’s research on innovation. Previously, he worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., a Strategic Planner for Aspen Technology and a Product Manager for WorldSpace Corporation. While at McKinsey, he co-authored a publicly released report on the United Kingdom's economic prospects. Scott received a BA in economics, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.