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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. Thanks for adding value to the discussion Rick.

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The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Leading academic institutions are looking at this problem, and some — including Harvard Business School — are expanding programs that take place along the continuum of a career, rather than just in preparation for one. There’s only one CEO of each of our careers—ourselves. level is a pretty dated concept.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

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. Barksdale: I think we use the term “disintermediate” a lot more than we do “unbundle from these terrible corporations.” Barksdale: That’s right.

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