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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.

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Yet almost all health care innovation funded since 2000 has been for sustaining the industry’s business model rather than disrupting it.

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. billion in 2010 to $4.9

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Kodak invested the rich proceeds from this critical intellectual property in creating a strong position in the digital-image-production technology — printers, papers, and inks — that was disrupting its historic analog business. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.