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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Without a disruptive focus you are merely building your business model on a “me too&# platform of mediocrity. Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. Is your business focused on disruptive innovation?

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. Many a skilled leader has fallen prey to this circumstance. You can see my reply there. I agree with both of you.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

".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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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked. Businesses such as IBM and Apple were able to weather disruptive shifts in their markets by taking such a course, creating separate teams and units focused on new innovations (PCs and smartphones respectively). Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.

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To Make Virtual Teams Succeed, Pick the Right Players

Harvard Business Review

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. He says it takes entrepreneurial spirit and initiative as well as technical skills to thrive as a remote worker.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. HCCI could buy equipment for one-third or half as much it would cost in the U.S. High-performing doctors from India were transferred to HCCI.

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The Industries That Are Being Disrupted the Most by Digital

Harvard Business Review

But the sheer pace of change has created a skills gap, which is stopping many of these organizations from moving more quickly. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for growth in a connected world.