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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. Competitive technology innovations that could adversely impact your business.

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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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Lipitor and iPhone 4s: Setting the Stage for Industry Disruption

Harvard Business Review

The Lipitor story seems to be about a managed end: the highly anticipated demise (due to the expiration of its patent last Nov. The iPhone 4S's story seems to be about a new beginning: the highly anticipated launch of the latest version of a blockbuster consumer-technology product. 30) of a blockbuster prescription drug.

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What Africa’s Banking Industry Needs to Do to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. But banks cannot control the rules of engagement as they have in the past, since customers now have more choices and are more fragmented, and disintermediation by fintech is making it harder to earn fees. Data consolidation.

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The Best Salespeople Do What the Best Brands Do

Harvard Business Review

Digital commerce and disintermediation have caused many customers to question the importance of having a sales relationship at all. They’re also aware of the power of social selling today and they carefully manage their social network activity to make informed, authentic, personal connections.

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Reinvigorate a Disengaged Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

The issue facing most sales forces is not disintermediation. Redesign processes with sales tasks, not the technology, in mind. The role of data is not to make a manager sound "analytical." What is true is that online options are realigning sales tasks. Consider the century-old practice of selling cars at dealers.

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Lessons from the Industry Formerly Known as "The Record Business"

Harvard Business Review

For many artists and their managers, record sales are now just one of many revenue streams and one of a number of factors with which to judge success. Smart managers realize every artist is a standalone business that generates income from multiple revenue streams. A manager's job is to create those businesses and run them well.