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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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Innovating O ur Way to Sustainability , we assert that to address these challenges requires substantial, disruptive innovation across a wide number of sectors. Such innovation cannot and will not happen without the active involvement of the business community. Innovation is more than invention.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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Why Weight Watchers Can't Ignore the Call to Go "Free"

Harvard Business Review

"Free" product competition strikes again and the latest casualty is Weight Watchers, whose CEO recently left the company in the midst of the onslaught of free weight loss and fitness applications. A big obstacle to launching a free product, of course, is the worry that it will hurt revenues at best, and possibly destroy the business at worst.

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Insurance Isn’t Safe from Digital Upheaval

Harvard Business Review

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

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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. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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