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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

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Amazon vs. Apple: Competing Ecosystem Strategies

Harvard Business Review

Remarkably, the leading challenger is online retailer Amazon, with its Kindle Fire tablet. The innovation game is changing. The big difference is that the eReader market of 2007 was an open field; the tablet market of 2011 had a dominant giant. Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Hanna Rosin writes in her book “ The End of Men and the Rise of Women ” that women are no longer just catching up to men. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 million in 2011. The gender gap has continued to widen since then. As of 2010, only 2.4%

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3 Steps to Break Out in a Tired Industry

Harvard Business Review

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. As Levie put it, “in this industry, people already think they have innovated if they have painted a grey wall green.” In both 2010 and 2011, TripAdvisor voted citizenM “The Trendiest Hotel in the World.”

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. Bank of America recently considered a $5 fee for customers to get their own money via their debit card because they have to find a way to fund all those retail storefronts. There's no way we could ever be this collaborative.".

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