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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay? Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. One of Christensen’s favorite examples is steel minimills, whose electric arc furnaces used scrap steel as their feedstock. And once investments are fully depreciated, they have a habit of hanging on by virtue of marginal costing.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

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In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci.

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