N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Sustaining innovation is where larger corporations excel. Nobody expects a company with that motto to change the industry which defines it. But how much do we in a western society, need breakthrough innovation with companies which provide employment while making a decent profit?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

Once you understand that existing companies are designed to execute, then you can see why they have a hard time with continuous and disruptive innovation. It will happen especially in industries such as transportation, shipping, finance, and retail, but all kinds of companies and leaders should look into this much deeper.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 13, 2021

In the midst of the 4th industrial revolution, as we are, threats of disruption surround us. Typically, we tend to view such disruption in binary terms as either a threat to our business or an opportunity for it.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

Personally, I have seen friends in industries like travel and hospitality whose businesses and hence careers were suddenly disrupted with no where else to go. Pandemic has been a great disruptor for many businesses and individuals. Adapt, change course as necessary, and sail into discovery.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It offers the immense potential to innovate new markets where none existed before: Think of the billion-dollar industry the Square credit card reader unlocked, for example.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Christensen calls this “ disruptive innovation ” and gives examples as diverse as the personal computer industry, milkshakes, and steel minimills. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION? Earlier examples of disruptive innovations: telephone (disrupted the telegraph). the iPod disrupting the Walkman.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

His book The Innovators Dilemma has impacted the business world perhaps more than any other book in recent history. He has expanded his research and applied his theories to other industries like health care, higher education and even governments and tax systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2023

Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

Innovating O ur Way to Sustainability , we assert that to address these challenges requires substantial, disruptive innovation across a wide number of sectors. Electrification in heavy industrials. Such innovation cannot and will not happen without the active involvement of the business community.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2018

We tend to think that outstanding creative works or amazing disruptive innovations sprang forth into the world wholly original and unique to that industry. The most disruptive innovation most people are talking about right now (and have been for years) is still Netflix. It’s quite simply not true.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

Personally, I have seen friends in industries like travel and hospitality whose businesses and hence careers were suddenly disrupted with no where else to go. Pandemic has been a great disruptor for many businesses and individuals. Adapt, change course as necessary, and sail into discovery.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Moreover, the true litmus test for a thought leader is when their unique ideas are implemented in the marketplace, they tend to create disruptive innovation, and often change the way we view the world.

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

While startups amid current debates about disruptive innovations, digitalization, and industry 4.0 Concepts like efficiency vs. creativity or stability vs. flexibility are deeply engraved in our vocabulary as opposites rather than synergies. A similar contrast is the distinction between startups and companies.

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CEO Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

Attending and listening to speakers helps plant the seeds of innovation in my mind. Of course he spoke about disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation often happens at the low end of the market. He suggests medicine/health care will be one area that gets disrupted over the next decade.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For me and many other physicians, reading " Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care " by Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy in the September-October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review was like having a light turned on.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Specifically, it appears that data-enabled disruptors often confound industry pundits. Is Uber disruptive? Professor Clayton M.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It is this type of thinking that leaves venerable, high-performing companies — like Apple — open to the existential threats posed by competitors' disruptive innovations. Disruption occurs given two criteria. At that point, it will be too late for Apple to respond and the tablet market leader will no longer be Apple.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Kinal is the CEO and co-founder of Unleash , a disruptive innovator in the management education and consulting industry. 1) American Center for Training & Development 2012 State of the Industry Report, 2012. 3) US Training Industry Report, 2011. You can read her blog on her website and follow her on Twitter. (1)

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

When put to work, new technologies create many positive ripple effects on the global market, spawning some of today’s most exciting new businesses, even creating whole new industries and movements around them. It takes a unique mindset to execute them. .

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid? Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

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. I've been listening to these discussions about my industry's uncertain future for 12 or 13 years now.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 #49 Management Thinker 2015, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. David Peterson – Pioneer executive coach, head of coaching at Google, author Development FIRST and Leader as Coach.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer. When it comes to innovation, culture is more important than strategy. By embedding innovation in your organizational culture, you can set yourself up for future wins.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2019

Daniel Schreiber, Lemonade’s CEO and cofounder, joins Azeem to discuss how the company is using artificial intelligence to disrupt a legacy industry by realigning incentives with the values that customers care about.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

About five years ago I did this somewhat tongue-in-cheek "timeline" of pivot points for a client in the TV business: Half-jokingly it made the point that there is a giant hairball of complexity, consolidation and confusion that the industry is going to have to go through, but if you can survive that, the obvious end state will be that any piece of (..)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid? Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

A maverick band of rabbits, threatened by the spread of industrial construction near their warren (home), start out on a quest for a new warren and a better society. Wise leaders know that success in the future will not come from incremental improvement but rather through disruptive innovation. Champion Diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2021

How a software company disrupted the waste management industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Xiaomi, the four-year-old Chinese smartphone manufacturer, has found just such a sweet spot, and as a result is taking the smartphone industry by a storm. What’s more, Xiaomi’s products rank among the best in the industry in terms of performance. Pundits claim that Xiaomi is just a Chinese copycat of Apple, and not without some reason.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. Really, we couldn’t find any industry where this phenomenon wasn’t happening. Paul and I call that the inevitable truth of your industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

“If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” The second wave of digitization is set to disrupt all spheres of economic life. As early as 2012, the company saw the potential of big data in the agriculture industry.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. New Skills Required.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2024

Disruption is not the only path to innovation and growth. Creation without disruption or nondisruptive creation is about creating a new market outside or beyond existing industry boundaries, and has its own organizational and business advantages. 2) It is an effective way to respond to full-on disruption.

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