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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. Two topical communities stood out as being linked to the largest number of the other topics: disruptive innovation and radical innovation.

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Elon Musk’s Patent Decision Reflects Three Strategic Truths

Harvard Business Review

A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla. Auto industry Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Three Answers Every Employee Needs

Harvard Business Review

This experience came back to me in late 2010, listening to Steve Kaufman , a senior lecturer at HBS and the former CEO of Arrow Electronics, presenting at the Forum for Growth and Innovation. On the topic of acquisitions, Kaufman recounted the standing advice of the former head of Arrow's acquisition integration team.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

According to MĂ©ndez-GarcĂ­a, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. Because the model relied on providing long-term loans, Eric asked questions about repayment and cultural bias. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.