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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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What Business Schools Don???t Get About MOOCs

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And The advantages of MOOCs and, more broadly, online technology as a delivery channel, are real.

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Steve Ballmer's Big Lesson for the Rest of Us

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker made the point in HBR''s pages 18 years ago, writing that "Core competencies are different for every organization. But every organization needs one core competence: innovation.". has reached a "technological plateau" and reenergizing economic growth will be extremely hard to do.

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Where Disruptive Innovation Came From

Harvard Business Review

My own take is that Clay Christensen and his co-authors on the theory made a substantial contribution to our understanding of innovation. In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Focusing on a few key success factors, critical resources, and core competencies (maybe a reference to C. Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”).