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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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Without a disruptive focus you are merely building your business model on a “me too&# platform of mediocrity. Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. Is your business focused on disruptive innovation?

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

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Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

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Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership. Our Freedom.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). Apple's General Counsel, Nancy Regina Heinen, left in 2006. (In No iPad mini at all. Executive exodus: In 2008, Tony Fadell, senior vice president of the iPod division, stepped down. His wife, the VP of HR at Apple, also left.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. And Big Business did not even make those bets. That's before the Great Recession.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation. The movie-by-mail program was enhanced by the streaming option in 2010 and slowly they killed all their competition like Blockbuster. Tech innovation is almost dead in the financial industry. Even more impressively, their spin out Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education

Harvard Business Review

According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning , approximately 5.6 Consider a recent Economist article featuring Bill Gates's educational poster child: Khan Academy , founded by Salman Khan in 2006. And indeed, while it initially grew slowly, online education has exploded over the past several years.