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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? Focus on value creation. A ctionable – It’s not a game changer if whatever “it” is never gets off the drawing board.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

No advertising innovation: The "I'm a Mac/"I'm a PC" campaign ran for three and a half years without a refresh. 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 Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. No iPad mini at all.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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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.