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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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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. 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! The disruption just keeps on going.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Becky Robinson Mike, the first thought that came to my mind is social media. Leaders who leverage social media successfully for their organizations can bring about great change. Interacting through social media is simple, meaningful, actionable, relational, transformational, and scalable. Wonderfully stated. Thanks Bret.

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Jeff Bezos Brings His Low-Margin Ways to Newspapers

Harvard Business Review

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. Advertising Media Strategy' Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say.

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CMOs: Build Digital Relationships or Die

Harvard Business Review

They control costs, they oversee the social media team, they''ve built a fiefdom of IT systems to build the customer relationship, and, most of all, they obsess about the brand. The CMO that ignores disruption''s opportunity will watch it turn into a threat. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

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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. Disruptive innovation' The Apple TV will be a portal to worlds now accessible only by planes, trains and automobiles. So let''s behold them.