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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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Keep Listening, but Start Talking

Harvard Business Review

There are three founding partners : Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. When we meet with prospective investors, I don't speak much, and for good reason. But here's the rub.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

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Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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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

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. More recently, Christensen has acknowledged that perhaps Apple, the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, achieved the task. per share by nearly a dime.