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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Without a disruptive focus you are merely building your business model on a “me too&# platform of mediocrity. Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. Is your business focused on disruptive innovation?

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. Is it likely that you would learn something "game-changing" at the conference last week?

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

The cat out of the bag, the FAA hastily convened a Sunday press conference to announce the draft rules, further eroding any remaining confidence that the agency’s high-minded rhetoric about ensuring public safety is anything more than an excuse.

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Blue Nile's Cheaper Diamonds Need Not Threaten Tiffany. Here's Why.

Harvard Business Review

In a store, they can gauge a particular diamond's sparkle with their own eyes, or they can confer with the jeweler, relying on his artistry. Knowing that his girlfriend has fallen in love with a particular ring would make the the man (finances permitting) less likely to go elsewhere for the ring, for fear of disappointing her.

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Case Study: Can Retailers Win Back Shoppers Who Browse then Buy Online?

Harvard Business Review

If everyone is amenable, I’d like to arrange a conference call next week to discuss only this and decide on a course of action.” Farb can send around his deck, with plenty of supporting data, and we can all take some time to review the information. ” New Ways to Make Money.

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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. Amazon MP3 and streaming audio and video — disrupting traditional content distribution companies. per share by nearly a dime. That does not mean that they do not require investment.