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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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. 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

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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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. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate. Boring Is Productive.

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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. For over an hour, the panel discussed all of the innovative projects they’d worked on — spanning projects from Google Fiber to ad bidding technologies at Facebook. It’s a wide variety of things.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. In Washington, business as usual.