N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders). in 2011 to 2.9%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

You might see this fledgling business (Mine Kafon is being prototyped and tested now, thanks to a fully funded Kickstarter campaign to finance its development) as a brilliant act of business strategy. He’s an innovator. Rolling out major innovations must be your top priority. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. This shift is long overdue.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” With internal and external competitors using innovative technologies to launch products that better fit consumers’ demands, company leaders need to take pre-emptive action or risk the same fate as the pay telephone.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” With internal and external competitors using innovative technologies to launch products that better fit consumers’ demands, company leaders need to take pre-emptive action or risk the same fate as the pay telephone.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. In Washington, business as usual.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Newcomers like Harry’s still represent only a fraction of the overall market , but they’ve captured the majority of the growth in that time—a defining feature of disruptive innovation. In effect, it becomes a sort of coherent conglomerate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

With traditional sources of financing unavailable, Kellond raised her first round of capital ($408,000) on Kickstarter — the ultimate in creative financing. Think about it — disruptive innovation is about playing where no one wants to play (low-end), or has thought of playing (new market).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. But like disruption before it, the zeitgeist around lean has in some ways grown apart from the power and purpose of the idea. But you how do you get there? You can''t just ask for it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies.

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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. These things result in his brain being worked more than mine, and over time, innovative ideas being formed in his brain, not mine. When Clay is in the room, people want to hear from him.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. This story of disruption should feel familiar. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New platforms are allowing users to lend and borrow cryptocurrencies for profit — and threatening to make traditional financial intermediaries obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

What is “deep tech?” ” And could it help bring about an age of abundance?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New platforms are allowing users to lend and borrow cryptocurrencies.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Of course, nobody thinks technology companies should be left unregulated. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules. It isn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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