N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

I’m always on the lookout for new practitioners entering the market where we have practice areas, disruptive technology, or changes in the landscape that could disintermediate certain aspects of the market. Long-term advantage is created by innovating around the needs of the market with a focus on long-term value creation.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In both instances, the life-cycle management innovation involves using disintermediation to change how the customer interacts with the product. Lipitor's Long Good-bye. Broad expansion of such disintermediation in the pharmaceutical business could, of course, encounter numerous hurdles.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As long as those channels can deliver the aesthetic the artist wants and make a profit, the business is a success. Building communities takes time, and it can only be achieved over the long-term. The key to artist-management success is identifying talent early and developing it cost-effectively over a long period of time.

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Industry Disintermediation Merchandising Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Digital commerce and disintermediation have caused many customers to question the importance of having a sales relationship at all. To borrow a term, the best salespeople are brand evangelists. Customer-centric sales and most other sales improvement approaches are pursued for the sole purpose of increasing sales.

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Brand Disintermediation Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Another way to cultivate your career is to think in terms of “career option value”—making yourself marketable for many emerging career possibilities by continually adding to your own portfolio of transferrable skills, networks, and experiences. Engagement has long been the Achilles heel of organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Executives should also be wary of how AI increases the dangers of brand disintermediation. Because of that, good and bad impressions may have long-term, global reach. ” All this is very much in keeping with the Apple brand, which has long espoused individuality over conformity.

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