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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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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. The book introduced the idea of disruptive innovation to a generation of managers.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership. Best wishes Tom.

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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'

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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 So there will always be a need for teachers.