N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Juan Carlos holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, a Masters in Systems Engineering and Bachelors on Electrical Engineering. Images copyright 2012 Juan C. Mendez and Whitney Johnson.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

The country's bragging rights in science and engineering are especially in doubt. colleges are losing ground in two key of measures of research quality: the percentage of the world's science and engineering articles published, and article citations. A 2012 National Science Foundation report notes that U.S.

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Engineering Education Class Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. workers in engineering, manufacturing, even aerospace. and the level of employment.

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