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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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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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. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education

Harvard Business Review

Four years ago Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted that online education would take off slowly and then hit everyone by surprise: the S-curve effect. According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning , approximately 5.6 Khan's business model is simple, yet impactful.

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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.

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

Harvard Business Review

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) Consider it a summary of what's on my mind as 2010 comes to a close. How do you define innovation?

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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). Disruptive innovation Global business'

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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). Disruptive innovation Global business'