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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay? Why did American auto-makers lose their once dominant position to their European and Asian counterparts?

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

For those interested in engaging classic literature, Wikipedia has a list of "The 100 Best Books of All Time," and Modern Library has picks for novels and nonfiction. I've only included books I've actually read, and I tried to compile a list that includes history, literature, psychology, and how-to. That's a tough question.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

For those interested in engaging classic literature, Wikipedia has a list of "The 100 Best Books of All Time," and Modern Library has picks for novels and nonfiction. I've only included books I've actually read, and I tried to compile a list that includes history, literature, psychology, and how-to. That's a tough question.

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The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve

Harvard Business Review

In researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that every innovation strategy fails eventually, because innovation is, at its core, about solving problems — and there are as many ways to innovate as there are types of problems to solve. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Related Video.

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Dinosaurs, Big Consulting Firms and Disruptive Innovation

N2Growth Blog

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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High Frequency Trading and Finance’s Race to Irrelevance

Harvard Business Review

It was hard not think about that analogy while reading the latest Michael Lewis book, Flash Boys. Lewis’s book, and HFTs in general, have attracted a lot of attention of late. It makes no sense to let such finance-oriented, short-term pressures seep into the economy’s innovation engines. Economy Finance'

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