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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay?

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

pace in the first quarter of 2010. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. That was down from 9.7%

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

Consider it a summary of what's on my mind as 2010 comes to a close. create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g., What is a business model (and how do I innovate one)? Build a business model designed around the low-end customer's job-to-be-done. Why is innovation so hard?

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Nigeria's Big Gamble on One Indigenous Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

The latest set of contracts, penned in 2010 , have run aground due to haggling over Chinese access to oil blocks and the threat of unfavorable regulation. Clay Christensen''s research explores interdependent versus modular approaches to customer problems (pdf). Collaborate with domestic partners or go it alone.

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Nigeria’s Big Gamble on One Indigenous Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

The latest set of contracts, penned in 2010 , have run aground due to haggling over Chinese access to oil blocks and the threat of unfavorable regulation. Clay Christensen’s research explores interdependent versus modular approaches to customer problems (pdf). Collaborate with domestic partners or go it alone.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. As Clay Christensen often points out, successful companies are designed to capitalize on sustaining innovations that jibe with their existing business models.