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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.

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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

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.".

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). This is the bestselling bible of the coaching industry, which popularised the most influential model of coaching: the GROW model. Christensen. By Daniel H. By John Whitmore. By Clayton M.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Too much efficiency can be just as deadly as too little, if it leaves an organization unable to cope with change — either because it's too fragile to survive a crisis or too rigid to adapt to industry changes. Everyone knows the story. This was not a new lesson, at least to the armed forces.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses. Indeed, while direct revenue from oil and gas fell to below 50% of GDP in 2017 (from 60.1%