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.

Business Model 305

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox , Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. billion "managed print services" (MPS) industry ( according to research firm IDC ).

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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Going forward, we’ll have to work harder for any gains in productivity and prosperity, and they will come slower. Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management. Managers, of course, are among the great rule inventors and implementers of the world. Past work by another economist, Paul Romer, helps make the point.

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Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job. At a recent industry conference, Bill Reichert , managing director of Garage Technology Ventures opined, "VCs do not invest with their brains.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Up until the late 1950’s, anyone interested in sending bulk product across the globe placed that product in 60-pound burlap sacks, sent those to the docks, and entrusted longshoremen to tuck them efficiently into nooks and crannies in the hulls of merchant vessels. It was clearly a superior method of managing commerce.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

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. Consider the management consulting industry. It would be terribly naïve to assume that nothing in your business will need to change.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 13