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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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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model. Transformers.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

Engineers at Google might be getting paid more than engineers elsewhere because they’re better engineers. economy — especially software-intensive sectors such as media, professional services, and finance — tend to be highly profitable as well. Others will try and fail. “Think of General Electric.”