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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Particularly in the Internet’s native careers – design and software engineering — communities of practice have emerged that offer signals of types and varieties that we couldn’t even imagine five years ago. In these fields in the innovation economy, traditional credentials are not only unnecessary but sometimes even a liability.

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Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Juan Carlos holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, a Masters in Systems Engineering and Bachelors on Electrical Engineering. Images copyright 2012 Juan C. Mendez and Whitney Johnson.

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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

"With proper financial engineering, I am absolutely convinced we can solve cancer," MIT professor Andrew Lo says. SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. Wired) The Geography of American’s Who Work From Home (Atlantic Cities) History's Most Famous Serial Career Changers (OnlineCollege.org).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. Airy — dare I say arrogant? How vulgar and crass.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same.

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