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Business Model Architecture | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While most C-level execs have a general idea of what I’m referring to, it is also quite clear that most can’t even begin to define it, much less articulate the specific constructs of a sound business model. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc.,

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable. If your business model requires implicit customer growth your business might grow for a time period certain, but it isn’t scalable. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant. Our Freedom.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do. mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Managers assess performance. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion. Architecture.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Managers assess performance. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion. Architecture.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling.

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