N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

” The Danger of Disintermediation. Already, consumers are being disintermediated from traditional brand choices via search engine and online retailer algorithms that determine which products are presented to consumers, and in what sequence.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

A new well-engineered car rarely needs any special maintenance in the first 7-8 years of its life. In the same way as when travel agents were disintermediated by websites and direct sales, the quintessential auto dealership may now be counting its last days, only creating more inefficiencies in the supply chain than the value it provides.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

In fact, if you peek behind the server farms of online firms themselves, you will find traditional face-to-face sales organizations as the engine of revenue acquisition and firm value. The issue facing most sales forces is not disintermediation. What is true is that online options are realigning sales tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

How do agencies ensure their future by being able to help brands sell more and build stronger loyalty in such a disrupted and disintermediated world, where every individual is consuming so much media from so many different channels? Watching an unknown search engine with a cute name become one of the most powerful brands in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Its founder was not only a member of the National Academies of Science and Engineering but the Institutes of Medicine, as well. But their pushback was firm: disintermediated meetings were preferred to ones facilitated by a third-party like myself. What killed me was that my circumstances for success seemed ideal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

For example, if you’re an engineer, it’s not a tough bet to say that, within a few years, having robotics or augmented reality experience would be appealing. Is it dangerous to try to anticipate what the market will be doing in 3 to 5 years, and therefore what skills you should be developing now? It creates option value.

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