N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Without a disruptive focus you are merely building your business model on a “me too&# platform of mediocrity. Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. Breyer stands out — both in the room and the Twitter echo chamber — by sounding like an Old Testament prophet (or at least like Clay Christensen ): "traditional media companies unless they radically change.

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Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Innovation Christensen 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. Sometimes that''s political influence and hometown boosterism, as with the local developer and hotelier who bought San Diego''s daily paper.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. See More Videos > See More Videos > Disruptive innovation. When that happens, innovating your products won’t help — you have to innovate your business model. Related Video.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

. • Amazon MP3 and streaming audio and video — disrupting traditional content distribution companies. Amazon Web Services — disrupting the companies that sell on-site servers and native software applications. Amazon, it appears, is willing to wait as long as it takes to develop a portfolio of disruptive-growth businesses.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. Except for a few dark years in the mid-1990s, Apple has always been very good at sustaining innovation. The cylindrical black desktop is very cool-looking.

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Schiller Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen 10