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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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. To read the complete interview, check out other resources, learn [.].

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2023

Disruptive innovation isn’t just about simplifying technology — it also requires a new business model.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

And if those dominant companies fail to adopt new technology or improved business models, and continue to pursue strategies that perpetuate what has historically helped them succeed, they may find their once profitable business declining. WHAT IS A DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION? semiconductors (disrupted vacuum tubes).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For me and many other physicians, reading " Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care " by Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy in the September-October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review was like having a light turned on. That seemed like a losing strategy to most of my colleagues. or a doctor's office.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2019

Investor Cathie Wood, one of Bloomberg’s 50 people who defined global business in 2018, discusses the five innovation platforms shaping our future and strategies for investing in them. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The competitive risks and tradeoffs you should consider before incorporating Gen AI into your organization’s strategy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015, co-founder Strategyzer, Osterwalder Strategy Facilitation, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Here is the list of the 25 coaches who will join me December 2-4 in Phoenix. Pooneh Mohajer – Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It is exactly this brand of thinking that is dead wrong when it comes to new product development and competitive strategy. It is this type of thinking that leaves venerable, high-performing companies — like Apple — open to the existential threats posed by competitors' disruptive innovations. It will be Amazon.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. LARRY: Sure.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." The authors offer up five additional strategies in the full article. Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? To start, try eliminating customer pain points. Identify these types of practices, and wipe them out.".

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO Harvard Business Review Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt Sztuka podejmowania decyzji.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

.” Yet, despite the unprecedented scope and momentum of digitization, many decision makers remain unsure how to cope, and turn to scholars for guidance on how to approach disruption. The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” This may happen in two ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." The authors offer up five additional strategies in the full article. Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? To start, try eliminating customer pain points. Identify these types of practices, and wipe them out.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2023

Conversations with experts about the imminent tradeoffs facing senior leaders.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. 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. Strategy and Culture Advisors. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? .” On the other, it means, “the carrying out of a death sentence.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

A game changer is that ah-ha moment that creates an extreme, disruptive advantage or improvement. 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. Thanks again for sharing Gwyn.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. The camera was as big as a toaster, took 20 seconds to take an image, had low quality, and required complicated connections to a television to view, but it clearly had massive disruptive potential. No strategy is static.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Move Beyond Enterprise IT to an API Strategy. It''s C-Suite Problem.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

To see that larger picture, let’s locate Apple within its larger context as a once disruptive innovator that’s now essentially an incumbent. A fundamental tenet of disruptive innovation is that established firms normally do not react to disruptors. And for a good reason. But one thing has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Strategy, after all, is about tradeoffs — choosing where to focus. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Competition in the industry is fierce, and many of these manufacturers’ key assets, such as factories, technology expertise, and distribution networks, are only useful in the traditional business, which is predicated on widespread vehicle ownership. A rare natural experiment. What companies fall into this quadrant?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy. How should you interpret the viability of Snap’s strategy amid the many opinions? The conventional wisdom holds that every industry is being disrupted and all the rules have changed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2023

If developed the right way, technology will augment–not replace–human labor.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. As Kawashima recalled, "We had no strategy other than the idea of seeing if we could sell something in the United States." Don't over-plan when doing the unheard-of.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Penney: Ditch the Risky Pricing Strategy. It's Still Tough to Get Hired (and to Quit). I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. Kyle Wiens. This was by far the most commented-upon post of the year.). Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen. Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms? For much of the 1980s and 1990s, many parts of the startup ecosystem focused on communications, technology, and health care. Are competitors with disruptive strategies having a material impact on portions of the industry?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

So your innovation strategy will have to adapt significantly depending on how well the problem can be framed. In 1993, IBM research accomplished the first quantum teleportation , a technology isn't likely to result in a product until after 2020. Sustaining Innovation: Every technology needs to get better.

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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. Perhaps you too are ready to disrupt yourself. Columbia University professor Amar V.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. Wrong predictions based on well-reasoned (at the time) assumptions are useful because they help strategists develop their own instincts for assessing future technologies. The freeze framer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

This insight resonates with our work on disruption across industries: disruptive innovations create new systems or “value networks” that eventually displace the old ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror” and referred to startups as “a pack of ravenous hyenas” intent on blowing things up.

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