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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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.

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change. It's media disintermediation at work! Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. Many industries have experienced disruption, due to technologies that successfully reduced inefficiencies and frictions, often disintermediating established players in the process. Related Video. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. The Benefits of Disruption.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

Barksdale: I think we use the term “disintermediate” a lot more than we do “unbundle from these terrible corporations.” HBR: Clay Christensen has described this progression in technology from the integrated product to the modular. And I mean, there are elements that are true, but it’s clear that people at some level need bundles.

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