N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2017

Some would say that the term thought leader, once synonymous with futurist and innovator, is more closely aligned with snake-oil salesman today. Don’t get me wrong, true thought leaders still exist; they are just far fewer in number than all the marketing hype would lead you to believe. What is a thought leader?

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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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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

There are two types of risk – competitive risk, which involves head-to-head competition, and market risk, which creates a new field of play. With market risk, you are playing where no one else is playing. The seven accelerants are (quoting from the newsletter): Take the right risks. Play to your Distinctive Strengths.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2021

The traditional narrative around disruptive innovation is that those doing the disrupting are nimble, agile, and generally taking advantage of the winds of technological change. Managing disruption. ” Adopter segments.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We know of the value of disruptive change, described best by Clayton M. Here’s the description (from Wikipedia): A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology.

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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. Such innovation cannot and will not happen without the active involvement of the business community. Innovation is more than invention.

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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. Let me begin by stating that authentic thought leaders, the real deals, are not created via great marketing and PR alone.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

There are two types of risk – competitive risk, which involves head-to-head competition, and market risk, which creates a new field of play. With market risk, you are playing where no one else is playing. The seven accelerants are (quoting from the newsletter): Take the right risks. Play to your Distinctive Strengths.

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CEO Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

Of course he spoke about disruptive innovation. They began by taking the low end of the market - rebar. So the minimills looked up to the next market - Angle iron. Eventually the minimills ended up with 65% of the market and the big integrated mills were mostly out of business. Seems to be recovering well though.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 17, 2016

His life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, 3rd… Read More Geoffrey Moore on competing in the Age of Disruption: An interview by Bob Morris.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2015

His life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, 3rd… Read More Geoffrey Moore on Zone to Win: An interview by Bob Morris.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

According to Christensen, you keep nimble and respond to up-and-coming innovations at the bottom of the market. You make a concerted effort to not let your company become vulnerable to what Christensen coined as disruptive innovation. So how do leaders make lasting change?

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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. It was like World War I trench warfare, where a 1% shift in market share was a big deal.

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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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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

As each piece of new technology hits the market, scam artists worldwide are becoming increasingly more crafty in their approach to exploit vulnerabilities in security and have left us exposed to digital attacks. This immense expansion of digital space has left us in dire need of advanced cybersecurity measures.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 13, 2014

His life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, 3rd […].

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. The majority of market observers reckon there is no way that it could slay the giant. Disruption occurs given two criteria.

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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). Historically, the place we’ve looked for hints of oncoming disruptions has been in the low end of the market. Is Uber disruptive?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. Medical supply and equipment costs are abating under market pressure. Middle-class status has now been achieved by more than 4 billion people worldwide.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

Gabor George Burt is a leading business transformationist and creator of the Slingshot Platform, enabling organizations to overstep perceived limitations, re-imagine market boundaries, and achieve sustained relevance. To learn more about Gabor’s work, visit his website: www.gaborgeorgeburt.com.

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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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Rapid BI

JANUARY 14, 2012

Disruptive Innovations that have impacted B2B Marketing Disruptive Innovations that have impacted business & B2B Marketing Looking through some of this data raises some interesting thoughts. The question is what will be the next disruptive technology or application that will change the way we do [.].

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The presentation goes on to say, "We're in a creative-inventive market, not a safety-critical market like medicine or nuclear power. Netflix's focus is on "rapid recovery": recognize problems when they occur and fix them quickly, rather than try to predict every outcome ahead of time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

Matt Eyring , president of Innosight, explains why disruptive innovation in developing countries means not just tweaking, but instead rethinking, your business. He is the coauthor of the HBR article New Business Models in Emerging Markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. Medical supply and equipment costs are abating under market pressure. Middle-class status has now been achieved by more than 4 billion people worldwide.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. And they are comfortable using rapid design cycles to prototype and test products/services in the market, rather than depending on traditional marketing analysis. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach?

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

Related: Bob Browne Discusses His Experience Applying Deming’s Ideas as a CEO – Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation – Deming Conference Webcast: Paula Marshall, CEO, The Bama Companies – Communicating Change.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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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. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. DAVID: Yeah.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. Two topical communities stood out as being linked to the largest number of the other topics: disruptive innovation and radical innovation.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2023

How Molson Coors formulated its strategy for entering the cannabis beverages business.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?”

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