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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.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

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. Organizations don't — and shouldn't — accomplish that by dangling financial incentives and lures.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Intermediaries or “trust brokers” do not have to be written out of the equation — or disintermediated — as many blockchain enthusiasts argue. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.