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Ambiverts win - Daniel Pink at World Innovation Forum.

CEO Blog

So they coined the word "Disintermediation"". Pushy, hard, yuck, annoying, manipulative, sleazy, tough, challenging, uncomfortable etc 4:1 ratio of negative to positive." Bouyancy is stay positive. The quotes below are what Pink said (although sometimes paraphrased because I can only type so fast.) But 2013 we still have 1 in 9.

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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

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. Do you stack-up as well as you think, or have you just adopted a position out of convenience? .

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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. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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What Africa’s Banking Industry Needs to Do to Survive

Harvard Business Review

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. The old banking order is failing in Africa and central banks are losing their powers with all the disintermediation.

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A Better Way to Handle Publicly Tweeted Complaints

Harvard Business Review

How smart are customer-centric firms that effectively train complainers to disregard or disintermediate their contact centers? Certainly, Toyota was driven to do so during its recall crisis — and its increased transparency had a positive impact on its public perception.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

In each case, the client was intent on giving its vendor access, software and/or other resources that put the vendor in a better position to come up with better innovations. Obviously, innovation investments shouldn't make it easier for suppliers to compete with or disintermediate their customers.

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A Failure That Still Haunts Me

Harvard Business Review

But their pushback was firm: disintermediated meetings were preferred to ones facilitated by a third-party like myself. My lab director's entrepreneurial brilliance was, ultimately, a negative and not a positive. Yes, they appreciated my information. But, frankly, they would reach out on their own terms in their own time as needed.