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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective.

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Disrupt Yourself

Harvard Business Review

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. It's a similar story when you contemplate disrupting yourself mid-career. Time to disrupt myself. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) I do agree with your basic premise though.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

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. According to the research on successful entrepreneurs, their single most important trait is the ability to persuade. If you say we should, let’s do it. Innovation'

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. Andreessen: I think a lot of it is based on the underlying technology change. Why is this? HBR: Right.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. Train Workers In STEM Fields , with a number of policy options to improve the number of people studying a science, technology, engineering or maths discipline.

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What Great Social Media Campaigns Get Right

Harvard Business Review

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. While digital technology can empower social initiatives, they are essentially human endeavors. These days, it’s pretty easy to interact with consumers directly. Yet that’s exactly the problem.

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