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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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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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High Frequency Trading and Finance’s Race to Irrelevance

Harvard Business Review

They represent the logical extension of a topic that’s captured the attention of a lot of great business minds for some time: the ongoing battle between those who view companies through the lens of building something, and those that view it through the lens of finance. Economy Finance' The arguments against doing so continue to mount.

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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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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Clay Christensen , Professor at Harvard Business School and Innosight co-founder.

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The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve

Harvard Business Review

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. There is no one “true” path to innovation. They lock themselves into one type of strategy and say, “This is how we innovate.”

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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. Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. If you can't do those three things, you need to limit yourself to sustaining innovation.