N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

Had the owners of those assets reacted immediately with a free or deeply discounted version of their encyclopedia (in digital form) to the segments adopting the digital versions, they may have been able to buy time for a successful transition to a new business model. Competition Disruptive innovation' Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

With traditional sources of financing unavailable, Kellond raised her first round of capital ($408,000) on Kickstarter — the ultimate in creative financing. The average age of a successful entrepreneur in high-growth industries such as computers, health care, and aerospace is 40.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

Apple’s string of product successes over the past decade has been so spectacular that there are few if any parallels in business past or present to compare it to. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance' Apple’s stock price isn’t excessively volatile; it’s necessarily volatile.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Lesson 1: Set clear boundaries.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. These attributes are among the most important predictors of team success. Four or five is ideal. It is the job.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

As long as the Model T's design remained ahead of the competition, as long as it competed on price, and as long as the market's needs remained static, this was a successful and disruptive innovation strategy, since Ford had no compelling reason to innovate in any other sphere other than cost- and price-reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. But success depends on learning to do both. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him. Next on deck is his son, Matt, the CEO and portfolio manager; then me. But here's the rub.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. Between your idea and the helm, there are legal departments, finance departments, marketing departments, other business units, channel partners, and sometimes even your customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

As the long-running drone rulemaking painfully highlights, the mismatch between rapidly-evolving disruptive innovations and the slow, deliberative model for expert agencies overseeing new industries has reached its breaking point–and then some.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

They also debunk the common notion about disruption that big companies must willfully forget what they learned from prior periods of growth and success. It’s a two-way flow of information from ideation to execution, and transparent: meetings, successes, and decisions are posted on an inter-company wiki. Integration is key.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Steve Jobs’ successors are at least an order of magnitude more credible as disruptive innovators than the heirs of Ford and Sloan. According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. He is one of the most thoughtful students of disruptive innovation you'll meet. Horace Dediu.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. But that’s just not true. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

"Competition" has changed when individuals can create value through a centralized network of resources: for example, designing a product from anywhere, producing it through a 3D factory , financing it through community and distribution from anywhere to anywhere. Perhaps the new model for a successful business should be "Nimble."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

George Mason University’s Adam Thierer, reviewing a resurgence of books about the “existential threat” of disruptive innovation, has detailed what he calls a “techno-panic template” in how we react to disruptive innovations that don’t fit into familiar categories. It isn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Both firms have been very successful and are competing more and more with the incumbent consulting firms; Eden McCallum boasts a client list that includes the likes of Tesco, GSK and Lloyd’s. Consulting Disruptive innovation' Business Talent Group is a similar business based in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Uber and Netflix have fundamentally shifted consumer behavior and disrupted incumbent firms. Uber and Netflix’s success were generated through two critical strategies. First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation.

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