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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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No Better Time

Persuasive Powerhouse

Posted in Uncategorized 2 Responses to “No Better Time&# Eleonor Moore: July 10, 2010 at 7:50 pm My employer is actively working to create cross-communication and cross-functional thinking through “Stewardship&#. An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The topic model allows us to analyze similarities and overlap among topics between published papers. For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies.

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

From our research on leading businesses and corporate foundations worldwide for Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World , we've learned that companies can leverage their know-how, their social and business networks, and even their core business models to make a bigger difference.

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Boards Must Be More Combative

Harvard Business Review

With technology and business model cycles becoming shorter and companies facing unrelenting pressure to innovate or suffer the consequences, more and more boards need to focus on the second of these roles. In September 2010 Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection. Turn Courage and Candor into Core Competencies.

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Cisco's Flip Flop and (Mis)Managing the Obvious

Harvard Business Review

The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. Put aside, for the moment, that Cisco spent $590 million during a recession to buy into the camera business. Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. What happened? Smartphones were becoming smarter.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

The company's core competency is branding and identifying customer pain points. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. In the U.S.,