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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. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The ideas of INSEAD professors Chan W.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. Thanks David.

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Nigeria’s Big Gamble on One Indigenous Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. 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.

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Nigeria's Big Gamble on One Indigenous Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

But there are further reasons for optimism, and lessons for companies looking to understand the power of indigenous entrepreneurs in emerging markets. 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.

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

Harvard Business Review

Consider it a summary of what's on my mind as 2010 comes to a close. new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility. What is the best way to disrupt a market? Who are your influences?

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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.