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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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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. 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.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. 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.

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The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation.

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The Most Innovative Companies Have Long-Term Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. And even with the best of intentions, most CEOs start off disadvantaged in building the next big thing.

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Let’s Stop Arguing About Whether Disruption Is Good or Bad

Harvard Business Review

The idea of disruption excites some people and terrifies others. Consider the recent case of The New Republic , in which a new, disruptive CEO came in and vowed to “break s**t.” Kenneth Andersson. ” The company’s top journalists balked, the brand was sullied, and the business still struggles.

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Too Much Profit Can Doom Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The former CEO believes that delivering profits is the main measure of a company, and he’s justly proud of the $250 billion of profits Microsoft generated during his tenure over 14 years. Profits appear more and more as a lagging indicator of yesterday’s innovations. Consider Microsoft under Steve Ballmer.