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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. Has your business embraced social media?

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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. and Hubert Burda of Burda are onstage talking about their experiences in a transformed media landscape. It's media disintermediation at work! Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times Co.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

The Apple TV will whisk us to work, to school, to conferences, to the city, to Second Life, to our memory palace and virtual library, to shared worlds like Eve and Halo. Yes, we disintermediated the channels of culture, communication, and distribution. So let''s behold them. It may even change the city. Yes, we digitized the analog.