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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. I worry much more about the unknown than the known… .

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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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Lipitor and iPhone 4s: Setting the Stage for Industry Disruption

Harvard Business Review

The Lipitor story seems to be about a managed end: the highly anticipated demise (due to the expiration of its patent last Nov. Apple use life-cycle management to explore a new way to drive the business and business model forward. 30) of a blockbuster prescription drug. But they have fundamentally more in common than meets the eye.

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

Harvard Business Review

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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Four Tips for Better Strategic Planning

Harvard Business Review

As a result, managers are uncomfortable actually moving into action or committing resources, preferring to stay with the business they know rather than possibilities that may or may not pan out. To overcome this inertia, ask managers to include specific, short-term experiments, whose results will communicate what works and what does not.

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Lessons from the Industry Formerly Known as "The Record Business"

Harvard Business Review

For many artists and their managers, record sales are now just one of many revenue streams and one of a number of factors with which to judge success. Smart managers realize every artist is a standalone business that generates income from multiple revenue streams. A manager's job is to create those businesses and run them well.

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The Best Salespeople Do What the Best Brands Do

Harvard Business Review

Digital commerce and disintermediation have caused many customers to question the importance of having a sales relationship at all. So they help their companies with product development, marketing strategy, and customer service by serving as the Voice of the Customer internally. Great brands avoid selling products.

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