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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Has your business embraced social media? Are employees who point out problems looked down upon? Do you settle for just managing your employees or do you inspire them to become innovators? When was the last time your executive team brought in some new blood by recruiting a rock star? Does anyone on your executive team have a coach or mentor?

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4 Steps to the Next Breakthrough Idea

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Herb Schaffner for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network (March 23, 2011). To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Thousands of business books are published every year, so sometimes [.].

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation. Unfortunately the approach you are taking is standard management, which in the case of discontinuous/radical/disruptive innovations fails. I look forward to hearing more from you.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom. Sharing, not telling.

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