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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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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. I clicked three buttons, and my ride was there in 12 minutes. Uber nails this.

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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. After all, the average blockbuster spends a third of its budget (around $30 million) on marketing. Who knows how much of this marketing is still active when the home viewer has the opportunity, weeks later, to buy the movie in-home.

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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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