N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Moreover, the true litmus test for a thought leader is when their unique ideas are implemented in the marketplace, they tend to create disruptive innovation, and often change the way we view the world. Let me begin by stating that authentic thought leaders, the real deals, are not created via great marketing and PR alone.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. The majority of market observers reckon there is no way that it could slay the giant. Disruption occurs given two criteria.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

Future-shaping business leaders are re-discovering the power of humor as a vital driver of organizational success. Stand-Up Strategists” are leaders who understand the utility of humor to boost creativity and innovation. Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla Inc. Today, we stand at the precipice of a new era.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In our era of rapid change, disruption, and possibility, there are so many great opportunities within our grasp. However, smart, successful people consistently miss out. Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

In our era of rapid change, disruption, and possibility, there are so many great opportunities within our grasp. However, smart, successful people consistently miss out. Breakthrough ideas and disruptive innovation stem from a deep understanding of the customer.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The larger organization often doesn’t directly oppose innovations in processes that are in place; but by reinstating old management practices the organization undermines the system that allowed those processes to be successful. It is very difficult to copy when you start undoing the cultural things.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In his blog post about the split, Hastings says: "For the past five years, my greatest fear at Netflix has been that we wouldn't make the leap from success in DVDs to success in streaming. The presentation goes on to say, "We're in a creative-inventive market, not a safety-critical market like medicine or nuclear power.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. Two topical communities stood out as being linked to the largest number of the other topics: disruptive innovation and radical innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. Thanks for laying out key success factors. The lie = success is about doing/being the best you can be. Success will come if you pursue excellence. Adjustments or adjournment.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Far too many supposed innovation experts believe that measuring activities is critical to success. Innovation activities simply for the sake of doing something without context and insight from the measure may be in fact very misleading. Maybe not so much. At least for the big stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market. Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Barra has his work cut out for him: Chinese companies have had mixed success so far in competing with top Western brands on several fronts at once. For every success (like Huawei or Lenovo), there have been stumbles (like Jianlibao and or Li-Ning ). Lei Jun has hired ex-Googler Hugo Barra to head Xiaomi’s international expansion.

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2020

When you think about it, the model of disruptive innovation is the exception, not the rule. Many leaders associate the term “innovation” with game-changing disruptions of existing industries or the creation of entirely new ones, like the way Apple’s iTunes helped create a whole new way to sell and distribute music.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

As a result, many top-tier students in developing markets graduating from the best Western institutions are motivated to stay abroad. Even when they come "back home", they often seek ways to replicate the frontier economy in their local markets. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship Global business'

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

It turns out that disruptive innovation researchers have empirically measured the odds of success in each of these situations, and their findings may not be what you expect. Here’s what they’ve found, and how they explain their results when they look at them through the lens of disruptive innovation theory.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track. The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. It's a similar story when you contemplate disrupting yourself mid-career.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. The authors called these "disruptive" solutions and provided a straightforward prescription for leaders looking to turn disruption into an opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For a new digital technology to deliver a disruptive innovation, a new technology must leverage two things: A new route to market. All disruptive innovators in business have capitalized on a channel of commercialization where the leading firms are not present. A new business model.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

My own view is that there are three secrets to Christensen's success: 1. When I first met Christensen he was certainly well known due to the 1997 publication of The Innovator's Dilemma , which won the Global Best Business Book award. An eternal quest for truth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

One cancer trial costs about $200 million and has fairly low odds of success. But if you do lots of research and conduct many trials at the same time, your odds of success are greater. SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. Female Leaders Make Startups Successful (Bloomberg Businessweek).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

their production capacity, which obviously varied considerably) and the competitive intensity of their markets (which ranged from perfect competition to near monopoly, because of regulatory differences between states). We looked in particular at firms with generation assets that would become redundant if the disruptive model became dominant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Why does disruptive innovation seem to take so long? And why don’t the usual levers we deploy to speed up our innovation efforts–like pushing more resources, more frequent check-ins, and tighter deadlines–seem to deliver results?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. So I’ll pose a question now: What questions should corporate innovators use to increase their odds of success? Identifying the Threat of Disruption. Speed alone is insufficient.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A “ new model for how winter sports are done” that “feeds an audience hunger for life-treating daredevilry” and drives “ high market penetration and. The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation. The process of disruption follows a predictable pattern.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. Tesla is also not comparable to Netflix, another frequently-cited example of a disruptive innovator. If that potential isn’t realized, the money will quickly dry up. For now, Tesla has none of these.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Team members had researched the market thoroughly. It employed a business model that would make it very difficult for the current market leader to respond. The classic fingerprint of disruptive success. You’ve told me it’s a big market, but I’m not sure yet what we get out of this.”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. Disruptive Innovation. 5% on small sustaining innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. I clicked three buttons, and my ride was there in 12 minutes. Uber nails this.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Readership had been dipping for four successive generations, as most youth turned to social networks and other online media for news. Spotting disruptive business models early is very powerful but arguably difficult. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

But does greater innovation equal sustained macroeconomic growth and prosperity, all the time or even most of the time? There is reason to believe that while innovation can be pivotal to macroeconomic prosperity, not all kinds of innovation are created equal. Economic development Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If the odds were 99:1 against breakthrough innovation inside the mature company, we'd still see leaders chasing after that golden ring. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Your team comes up with a model that's wildly successful; their excess widgets sell like hotcakes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Margins are maximized to the extent that companies leverage core capabilities in bringing products to market, and are able to establish control of key points in the value chain, for example regarding commodity costs, patents, or brand strength. Design Disruptive innovation Internet'

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