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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. Thanks for adding value to the discussion Rick.

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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. And then, more often than not, they’ll say, “OK, I get it.” And they’ll answer their own question more insightfully than I could have.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

They have the power to change the world. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound. In 2010, the government of Malaysia launched the third wave of its National Blue Ocean Strategy. First, ideas are important.

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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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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation. link] mikemyatt Hi Dan – Thanks for stopping in, and I appreciate the kind words.

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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

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.