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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. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? Our Freedom.

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Reinvigorate a Disengaged Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. That may sound like a lot, but it''s less than 5% of total retail spending (even in a recession) and less than half of what just one retailer, Wal-Mart, sells annually.

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Who Rules the Web Now?

Harvard Business Review

Wired reported late last year, "The top 10 Web sites accounted for 31% of US page views in 2001, 40% in 2006, and 75% in 2010." Amazon is now a primary source of traffic for thousands of third-party retailers. Its retail vertical for shoes wasn't working. These are not online publishers, like Yahoo! These are tech companies.

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