N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

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. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 300

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market.

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Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

For emerging artists this is particularly precarious, since careers are too often ended early if a first set of recordings fail to sell. Without a simpler, better structured digital market, the direct artist-to-fan business will struggle to grow. Disintermediation has forced a focus on talented individuals who produce great art.

Industry 14

Industry Disintermediation Merchandising Long-term 14

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? and has studied emerging business and technology trends. You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130