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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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Tina Brown and Björk, Sisters of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Their print and music industries are being disintermediated by the digital revolution. Brown and Björk had enough altitude to glide to career's end. But they've given us cultural innovations of some interest. Björk's magnificent innovation just happens to exploit this convention as a way of getting paid. And daring.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. Barksdale: I think we use the term “disintermediate” a lot more than we do “unbundle from these terrible corporations.” Barksdale: That’s right.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? While they are focused on optimization, their shareholders continue to demand that they pay out greater dividends or engage in larger share buy backs instead of investing their profits for future innovation. Own and disintermediate the customer relationship.