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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

It's media disintermediation at work! Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years. But no industry has ever had its disruption chewed over in quite such exhaustive, exhausting detail as the media in the age of the internets.

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What’s Holding Uber Back

Harvard Business Review

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. Competition Disruptive innovation' Uber looks solid here, as well.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. Disruptive innovation'

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How Smaller Bets Can Revitalize Hollywood

Harvard Business Review

Now that cultural content could go directly to the consumer, "disintermediation" was inevitable. Innovation is suppressed. The digital revolution has been tough on traditional channels, diminishing the bookstore, the department store, and the newspaper. In the movie world, not so much.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business Review

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. The Benefits of Disruption. The result is a maze of point systems and redemption options, with cumbersome processes for exchanging points among program partners. Related Video.

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