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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Harvard Business Review

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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How to Prioritize Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business Review

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Sustaining Innovation.

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33 HBR Blog Posts You Should Read Before 2013

Harvard Business Review

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Boring Is Productive. How to Attend a Conference as Yourself. Here's Why. Kyle Wiens.

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Would You Rather Have Brazil’s Economic Problems or America’s?

Harvard Business Review

Two of the main drivers of a country’s economic growth are the size of its workforce and the productivity of its workers. He was speaking at an HBR Brasil conference on Brazilian competitiveness, and his message was pretty gloomy. The country’s only hope of continued economic success, he said, was strong productivity growth.

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Say “No” to Innovation-in-General

Harvard Business Review

I had just arrived at a conference on entrepreneurship and the only panel I wanted to see was starting. Innovation is both the new color of Crayola crayon as well as the iPad app that completely replaces the need for Crayola crayons in the eyes of children everywhere. But each aspect of it needs to be managed distinctly.