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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Disruptive Innovation (per the Christensen model) generally takes place in an industry dominated by an oligopoly and having an unserved segment ( towards the lower end in terms of profit margins and product capability) which attains visibility as a result of technological expansion in what is most of the time, a non-related field.

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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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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. For the last century, America has operated on the world's technological frontier. That was down from 9.7%

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Why You Need a Resilience Strategy Now

Harvard Business Review

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

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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). Christensen. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. By Daniel H.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Start a business, yes.