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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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What Kind of Innovative Does Apple Have to Be?

Harvard Business Review

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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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Harvard Business Review

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. What really struck me is that both Xerox and Waste Management are doing something mostly unheard of: they're working with customers to help them use less of their traditional product or service.

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Investors Punish Amazon for Investing in Disruptive Growth

Harvard Business Review

. • Amazon MP3 and streaming audio and video — disrupting traditional content distribution companies. Amazon Web Services — disrupting the companies that sell on-site servers and native software applications. It was precisely these investments that caused Amazon to miss its third quarter earnings targets.

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The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve

Harvard Business Review

The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. See More Videos > See More Videos > Disruptive innovation. When that happens, innovating your products won’t help — you have to innovate your business model. Related Video.