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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. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. For one marketing services firm, it meant being exposed to their biggest client's development teams and sitting through technical tests and focus groups to better appreciate and understand how its products were actually designed and built.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Intermediaries or “trust brokers” do not have to be written out of the equation — or disintermediated — as many blockchain enthusiasts argue. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.