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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. Also making the list is Wang Shi, founder and chairman of Vanke, the world’s largest residential home developer. This compares with just one in 2011.)

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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development. Jeff is Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University and Wharton.

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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?

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation strives to develop innovative solutions, both for the unique challenges faced by the nation, but also those of the wider world. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. Experimentation is required to build new businesses and industries. That was down from 9.7%

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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 Clayton Christensen would agree with the intuition that Groupon displays but ignores: businesses should become profitable before they become big. Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.