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. Is your business focused on disruptive innovation?

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. Since then, he has written over a half-dozen books and many more Harvard Business Review articles, almost all of which touch on disruption in some way. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. The wisdom of such a strategy has been discussed in business circles for years, most notably in the work of Harvard's Clayton Christensen ( The Innovator's Dilemma ).

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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. Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say.

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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. Pathbreaking innovations never arrive fully formed. Related Video. Basic research.

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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. The question remains whether its investors have similar patience. You have to be willing to fail.

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