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N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 9, 2010
All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
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. When was the last time you entered a new market?
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2018
Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. In another supplementary analysis, we used the rankings of finance departments in business schools.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In this world, insurance companies will require fewer actuaries and more data scientists — individuals with the ability to mine data to tailor insurance offers to specific market segments or even individuals.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2015
With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies. It’s not just products.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 1, 2017
You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses. They were both naïve to think that creating a high-expense, polished operation would automatically enhance their business.
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