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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry.

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The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. The cycle time for new technology has compressed and will continue to do so. There’s only one CEO of each of our careers—ourselves.

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Lessons from the Industry Formerly Known as "The Record Business"

Harvard Business Review

For emerging artists this is particularly precarious, since careers are too often ended early if a first set of recordings fail to sell. Disintermediation has forced a focus on talented individuals who produce great art. So how should a "content producer" behave in this new environment? But it's not all bad news.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. 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. Andreessen: I think a lot of it is based on the underlying technology change. Why is this?

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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. The accidents of industry, technology, and the marketplace gave us the 3-minute song bundled in multiples of 6 or 8 or 10 songs. Her current album is Biophilia. And daring.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

and has studied emerging business and technology trends. Own and disintermediate the customer relationship. This disintermediation of the customer account control is a hallmark of digital giants. . What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? Ray Wang is the Founder of Constellation Research , Inc.