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. A sustainable competitive advantage is not found by creating minor advantages in product features. Thoughts?

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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. Do people in your organization laugh at new ideas?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

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. Innovate ferociously.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

First, we should agree on a definition of a new market: in our view, it is commerce that brings together products and services with customers in a transaction that did not previously exist. In some cases, they also retained responsibility for managing hotel operations and of course signing up new properties to be part of their networks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Next, the innovator has to develop a behind-the-scenes advantage: a way of producing a product or service that seems magical from the customer’s perspective and that is difficult for other companies to replicate. That allows cab drivers to offer many of the conveniences of Uber without being disintermediated.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

An outsourced idea and creative team that could get the production done at a cost that was less than what it would cost the brand to have a permanent staff in place. Not products. In the past, many marketing agencies have done their best to create, market and sell an actual product (be it digital or physical). So, now what?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

For instance, a data center operator might make a skills pivot that could lead to a role as a data scientist as some at AT&T have done. To the contrary, I believe programs like AT&T’s provide opportunities to keep employee populations relevant—and those with relevant skills are less likely to get disintermediated.

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