N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. Digital is changing the nature of competitive advantage in many businesses – just like major technological developments have done before.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. For more information, see the conference homepage.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. When HBS professor Clayton Christensen introduced the concept of disruptive innovation in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma , it was a revelation. When that happens, innovating your products won’t help — you have to innovate your business model.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On the conference call, Szkutak explained that significant capacity investments are being made in distribution centers so Amazon can continue to grow its core retail business. And these investments do not even include those incurred in building, promoting, and marketing the new Kindle Fire product whose sales have yet to be counted at all.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Holacracy was supposed to revitalize the online shoe store’s culture and its reputation as a fun place to work, but the ever-expanding circles of responsibility that have emerged within the company and the resultant endless meetings are becoming a drain on productivity.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. Can''t innovate anymore, my ass," senior VP of product marketing Phil Schiller declared Monday after unveiling Apple''s new Mac Pro.

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