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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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Disruptive Innovation (per the Christensen model) generally takes place in an industry dominated by an oligopoly and having an unserved segment ( towards the lower end in terms of profit margins and product capability) which attains visibility as a result of technological expansion in what is most of the time, a non-related field.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

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Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation. link] mikemyatt Hi Dan – Thanks for stopping in, and I appreciate the kind words.

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

pace in the first quarter of 2010. Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. That was down from 9.7%

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. The realities of operating in large companies mean that this is far from always true.