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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Life Strategy and Executive Coaching

Tony Mayo

Christensen titled, “ How Will You Measure Your Life? &# Along with plenty of great advice for new graduates he shared some keen insights on executive coaching. I’ll describe how the process in the model worked its way through an industry quite different from their own. Instead, I run the question aloud through one of my models.

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business Review

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. We measured digital innovation based on the number of digital patents the firm had secured from 1998 to 2010.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. Second, management matters.

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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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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). Samsung’s story is a microcosm of the Korean growth miracle.

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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). Samsung''s story is a microcosm of the Korean growth miracle.