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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Hacking the Talent Gap

LDRLB

Mike is America’s Top CEO Coach, recognized by Thinkers50 as a global authority on the topic of leadership, a Forbes leadership columnist, author of Leadership Matters , and CEO at N2growth. As a leader you must learn to build bridges leading from old habits and comfort zones to the more fertile grounds of disruptive innovation.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services. He is the dean of the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and an associate professor in strategy and entrepreneurship.

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The Degree Is Doomed

Harvard Business Review

Particularly in the Internet’s native careers – design and software engineering — communities of practice have emerged that offer signals of types and varieties that we couldn’t even imagine five years ago. In these fields in the innovation economy, traditional credentials are not only unnecessary but sometimes even a liability.

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Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Apple's Innovation Premium

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. Time will tell whether Cook and his team will actually catch the front edge of the next disruptive innovation. Apple's transition is not without precedent.

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How the Internet of Things Changes Business Models

Harvard Business Review

In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

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The Idea That Led to 10 Years of Double-Digit Growth

Harvard Business Review

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. This process of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories.