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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. Does your organization focus more on process than success? Has anyone on your executive team attended a conference on strategy, innovation or disruption in the last year?

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The Persistence of the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." Of course, that young HBS professor was Innosight co-founder Clayton Christensen. That's not to say that there haven't been success stories. Yet, the innovator's dilemma persists.

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What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

Harvard Business Review

However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. Complements are not substitutes.

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Investing in Start-Ups: For Love and Money

Harvard Business Review

This week, over 10,000 entrepreneurs and investors will descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive , hoping to be or to find the next big thing in technology. According to Professor Clayton Christensen's jobs-to-be-done framework, whenever we buy something, we are hiring the product or service to do a job.

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Getting Beyond the Narcissism/Advertising Complex

Harvard Business Review

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” Realistic assessments of what can go wrong are helpful tools to highlight seemingly invisible mines standing in the way of success.

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What Kind of Innovative Does Apple Have to Be?

Harvard Business Review

My family and I have a bunch of Apple devices, a WiFi network built around an Apple Time Machine, and not enough technological savvy (or time) to figure out workarounds. 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.