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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Let’s just take a moment and look at a few notable examples of what happens to companies that become complacent…Why didn’t the railroads innovate? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Teams are meant to work collaboratively, which means to walk-through, debate, and likely reshape the idea before making a call.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. I look forward to hearing more from you.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder. ” They Develop a Road Map Before Disruption Takes Hold.

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What Kind of Innovative Does Apple Have to Be?

Harvard Business Review

Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. The key to its phenomenal success over the past decade, though, has been — to use Christensen''s terminology again — disruptive innovation.