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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. Competitive technology innovations that could adversely impact your business.

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

Harvard Business Review

The iPhone 4S's story seems to be about a new beginning: the highly anticipated launch of the latest version of a blockbuster consumer-technology product. In both instances, the life-cycle management innovation involves using disintermediation to change how the customer interacts with the product. Both Pfizer and.

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When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Today some companies are taking brand anthropomorphism to a whole new level with sophisticated AI technologies. Executives should also be wary of how AI increases the dangers of brand disintermediation. The first is that chatbots are just one type of AI technology being used to establish or reinforce company brands.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business Review

How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Best known as the technology behind bitcoin, blockchain enables a ledger of transactions to be shared across a network of participants. How technology is transforming transactions. Distributed Database. Blockchain may just be the answer.

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

Harvard Business Review

The key to artist-management success is identifying talent early and developing it cost-effectively over a long period of time. Disintermediation has forced a focus on talented individuals who produce great art. Building communities takes time, and it can only be achieved over the long-term. But it's not all bad news.