N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

He's not only the controlling shareholder of Rose Park Advisors; our investment approach is based on his theory of disruptive innovation. Especially when there is already a perceived competency gap of 70 percent in fields like science, technology, engineering and mathematics, it is vital that we close that gap, by opening our mouths.

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Christensen Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

We need to start treating innovation like other business disciplines — as a set of tools that are designed to accomplish specific objectives. It was with this in mind that I created the Innovation Matrix to help leaders identify the right type of strategy to solve a problem, by asking two questions: How well can we define the problem?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 22

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. They attribute the difficulty of creating such a disruptive growth engine to the fact that it is extremely hard for established companies to disrupt themselves.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12