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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.

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Lipitor and iPhone 4s: Setting the Stage for Industry Disruption

Harvard Business Review

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. The Lipitor story seems to be about a managed end: the highly anticipated demise (due to the expiration of its patent last Nov. Apple use life-cycle management to explore a new way to drive the business and business model forward. Both Pfizer and.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011.