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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. In this sense, the corporate entrepreneur must seek ways to build trust and reliance in the offering from the entrepreneurial initiative.

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How Understanding Disruption Helps Strategists

Harvard Business Review

That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. One yes bears watching; two yeses is a standup moment.

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. However, it will not succeed here.

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. And some superstars have very innovation-friendly experience, such as launching a new product, opening up an office in an emerging market, or operating in a constrained environment. Look for the aliens.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Meanwhile, the halls were filled with hundreds of investors and hundreds more entrepreneurs.

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How Thomson Reuters Is Creating a Culture of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.