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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.

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The Persistence of the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. The authors called these "disruptive" solutions and provided a straightforward prescription for leaders looking to turn disruption into an opportunity.

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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Harvard Business Review

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. Xerox advises companies on how to save money on document handling, and holds a sizable 48 percent market share in the broadly defined, and surprisingly large, $7.78

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Jeff Bezos Brings His Low-Margin Ways to Newspapers

Harvard Business Review

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. But that''s rare.

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The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve

Harvard Business Review

We need to start treating innovation like other business disciplines — as a set of tools that are designed to accomplish specific objectives. It was with this in mind that I created the Innovation Matrix to help leaders identify the right type of strategy to solve a problem, by asking two questions: How well can we define the problem?

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Investors Punish Amazon for Investing in Disruptive Growth

Harvard Business Review

. • Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. 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.

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What Kind of Innovative Does Apple Have to Be?

Harvard Business Review

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. Can''t innovate anymore, my ass," senior VP of product marketing Phil Schiller declared Monday after unveiling Apple''s new Mac Pro.