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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

In the military we valued actionable intelligence, studied our enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, developed a battle plan around a solid strategy, and executed our tactical mission as if our lives depended on it - because they did. I worry much more about the unknown than the known… .

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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. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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How To Lead In Uncertainty

CO2

Before reaching the top of the S-Curve, there will be disintermediation, which moves humanity from the current S-Curve to a new one. He developed Cynefin while at IBM to help decision-makers better understand how to behave based on their assessment of the organization’s environment.

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Future of work and prognostications following the covid19 pandemic

Mike Cardus

More effort and work to gather employee experience , voice of customer data, and systems to collect disintermediated people data – and share the macro effects then use micro-actions to make change and adust (much of this is using scaled technology) Managerial-leadership will become more distributed. ‘ – Dave Snowden.

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How to Approach Leading in Times of Uncertainty

CO2

Before reaching the top of the S-Curve, there will be disintermediation, which moves humanity from the current S-Curve to a new one. He developed Cynefin while at IBM to help decision-makers better understand how to behave based on their assessment of the organization’s environment.

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Lipitor and iPhone 4s: Setting the Stage for Industry Disruption

Harvard Business Review

In both instances, the life-cycle management innovation involves using disintermediation to change how the customer interacts with the product. Broad expansion of such disintermediation in the pharmaceutical business could, of course, encounter numerous hurdles. And both teach lessons that apply across many industries.

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When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Executives should also be wary of how AI increases the dangers of brand disintermediation. In Hong Kong Hanson Robotics is developing robots with human features. Take, for example, Robyn Ewing, who used to develop and pitch TV scripts to film studios in Hollywood. Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product.

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