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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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Why Estonia Is Letting Entrepreneurs Become “E-Residents”

Harvard Business Review

in 2011 to 2.9% Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders).

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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

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Why Weight Watchers Can't Ignore the Call to Go "Free"

Harvard Business Review

Nevertheless, our look at the reactions of 34 incumbent firms to "free" entrants across 26 product markets showed that launching a "free" strategy is too often a last resort, if undertaken at all (See my article, " Competing Against Free ," with co-authors Jeff Dyer and Nile Hatch, in the June 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review ).

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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., LearnVest clients have access to a dedicated certified financial planner who can help them better manage their finances and achieve their financial goals, including budget planning, loan optimization, and investment allocation advice.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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