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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. Are your management and executive ranks void of youth?

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

Because he and I have taught executive education classes together, I thought I should read his book. These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. Obviously, innovation investments shouldn't make it easier for suppliers to compete with or disintermediate their customers.