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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business Review

Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

Consider it a summary of what's on my mind as 2010 comes to a close. Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., How should I form and manage innovation teams? What is the best way to manage an innovation portfolio? What is the best way to manage an innovation portfolio?

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. The technology was great.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way.