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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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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. Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year?

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

Harvard Business Review

Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Ideas in and of themselves do not constitute a philosophy, principle, or strategy. However while most anyone can cobble together a high level strategic plan, very few can author a strategy that can be successfully implemented. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed.

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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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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. If the idea got far enough, they developed marketing campaigns, sales strategies, and launched it. The technology was great. HP rise had been remarkable. Sound familiar?

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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. Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., What is in a good innovation strategy? How do you define innovation? Something different that has impact. What are different types of innovation? Who are your influences?