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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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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. 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.

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

Harvard Business Review

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. Both the U.K. entrepreneurs twiddle their thumbs.

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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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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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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.