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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. or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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How the Internet of Things Changes Business Models

Harvard Business Review

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. Filling out well-known frameworks and streamlining established business models won’t be enough. Albert Shum , Partner Director of UX Design at Microsoft, notes: “Business models are about creating experiences of value.

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Alibaba: The First Real Test for Amazon’s Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. However, the ultimate test for a business model comes not from being the disruptor but from how resilient it is to disruption itself.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

As Kodak president Philip Faraci told a group of newspaper executives in 2008 (oh, the irony), one of Kodak’s biggest problems was the apparent stability of its core film business. In 1999, Kodak’s photography business peaked at $10.3 So how can you spot circumstances where an apparently healthy business masks an existential threat?

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When Do Regulators Become More Important than Customers?

Harvard Business Review

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption.

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Why Consumer Tech Is So Irritatingly Incremental

Harvard Business Review

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. Tesla, Nespresso, and Geox are current successful examples of such high-end disruptions. In the late 1960s, Michelin introduced the radial tire into the U.S.

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What Innovative Companies Can Learn from Keurig’s Highs and Lows

Harvard Business Review

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. GMCR kept the Keurig team distinct and separate, enabling it to pursue its experiment while the company continued its market presence as a coffee roaster.