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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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The Internet-Connected Engine Will Change Trucking

Harvard Business Review

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

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The Internet-Connected Engine Will Change Trucking

Harvard Business Review

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

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Let’s Stop Arguing About Whether Disruption Is Good or Bad

Harvard Business Review

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

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When Start-ups Should (and Shouldn’t) Partner with Industry Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Most pundits, however, jumped over the details of the contact to point out that United Launch Alliance (ULA) will use engines made by Bezos’ Blue Origin. It’s not hard to see why a partnership between a strong, but staid incumbent and an innovative startup appears attractive. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

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

Harvard Business Review

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Instead, what they should have done is innovate a new business model.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

Robin Li, founder of China’s largest search-engine, Baidu, is a talented software engineer who returned to China from the U.S. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary. billion business after two years. What Business Can Expect from China’s Third Plenum. Understanding Chinese Consumers.