N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

In truth, successful disruption does not merely destroy, but creates a shift in mental models. The primary target of Lepore’s attack was Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, whose groundbreaking book, The Innovator’s Dilemma coined the term disruptive technology (later transformed into disruptive innovation ).

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Bureaucracy Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. How often have you seen a firm revolutionize an industry by creating a superior product using a new business model? Rather, it has developed an entirely new business model to profitably exploit a new, superior technology. Gas lamps gave way to incandescent lamps.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Thus, companies with great engineering talent have the “acqui-hire” option – they have created value by assembling great teams. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy .

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management. Why the Lean Start Up Changes Everything. Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact. How Netflix Reinvented HR.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The promise of job creation — the refinery project is expected to employ 8,000 engineers and create jobs for 85,000 Nigerians — has excited many commentators. Clay Christensen’s research explores interdependent versus modular approaches to customer problems (pdf). Collaborate with domestic partners or go it alone.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8