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?

Business Model 305

Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

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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Productivity Products Christensen Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

This week, over 10,000 entrepreneurs and investors will descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive , hoping to be or to find the next big thing in technology. 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.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Entrepreneur Sports 14

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. Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. Complements are not substitutes.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

He argues more broadly that all the “low-hanging fruit” produced by some non-repeatable breakthroughs (including fundamental technological triumphs) has been plucked. Going forward, we’ll have to work harder for any gains in productivity and prosperity, and they will come slower. We can make new tools, and we can make new rules.

Management 11

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

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. Courtesy of Boston Public Library. Apple is a perfect example.

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Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? Related Video. Basic research.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22