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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. Access to innovation resources and skills matter far more than money. Obviously, innovation investments shouldn't make it easier for suppliers to compete with or disintermediate their customers.