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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Where are the markets with opportunities? You’ll start with in-market leverage, growing within your core.

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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business Review

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. When your “forward scouts” see something important, what mechanisms exist to set up collaborations with outside vendors or startups, or run a quick pilot test with a function or business unit?

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? There are two ways to set revenue targets.

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Organic Growth Is the Underestimated Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

Often it's because their business models have run their course (Yahoo!), Others double down on their most loyal customers on the theory that they can build on an already strong market position and emotional connection. Instead, they let a small startup develop the first low-cost electric toothbrushes.

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Why Top Management Should Listen to Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage? What is our promise to the market and to customers? These companies may do business in a dozen different sectors, but everything they do nonetheless fits together in a coherent way.

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Getting Back to Growth

Harvard Business Review

Many chase market share they'll never get. A lot of companies throw money at the problem — more R&D, more marketing, more sales people. My experience suggests that growing organically is a skill companies can develop, not an advantage they temporarily gain as a result of a hot product or successful business model.

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