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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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We Don’t Need a Whole New Regulatory Regime for Platforms Like Uber and Airbnb

Harvard Business Review

As a result, regulations influenced mainstream cell phone use differently depending on the country. In other words, they sold their real estate assets to institutional investors and private wealth funds, and they began to operate as essentially management companies focused on defining a brand proposition, marketing and generating sales.

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Who Rules the Web Now?

Harvard Business Review

Adding a profile on Facebook has little to no impact on Facebook's operating costs. The login systems for Facebook and iTunes give Facebook and Apple the ability to influence users through ad services downstream. The extra search on Google, essentially, is immaterial to Google's economics. More usage funds more infrastructure.

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