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

Engaging Leader

Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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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. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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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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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. The company's product is not more valuable to users as more people adopt the platform.

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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. That was down from 9.7% in the previous quarter and from its blistering 11.9% pace in the first quarter of 2010.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Sinek entered mainstream business awareness with his TED talk, in which he introduces a deceptively simple model called “the golden circle” made up of three layers: What (Product), How (Process), and Why (Purpose). Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). Christensen. By Daniel H. By Clayton M.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is great way to stifle innovation without exploring extensions to existing product lines. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. In other words, anything that is beyond the vision of the business is never considered or even explored to the first level of analysis.

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