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Breaking Through | A New Frontier of Technology and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

As each piece of new technology hits the market, scam artists worldwide are becoming increasingly more crafty in their approach to exploit vulnerabilities in security and have left us exposed to digital attacks. This immense expansion of digital space has left us in dire need of advanced cybersecurity measures.

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Lafley's Ambiguous "Gift" of Innovation Failure

Harvard Business Review

As Lafley recalled, P&G had planned to quietly test market Vibrant — their bleach offering to rival Clorox — in out-of-the-way Portland, Maine. An excellent business case could be made that Clorox's "Portland Massacre" was — dollar-for-dollar — its most strategically important (anti)marketing innovation that year.

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What Coffee, Bleach, and Bondi Blue Teach Us about Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Design innovation mattered more than technical innovation. Innovation snobbery is a market signal.

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. He would have to train in completely different ways, and unlearn many of the things that have allowed him to succeed at his chosen sport. That's no dig on James.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Transaction costs, Coase argued, explained why some interactions were left to the market and others were internalized in increasingly large, complex enterprises.

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Should Global Beer Company Molson Coors Enter the Cannabis Beverages Business?

Harvard Business Review

How Molson Coors balanced exploitation and exploration, while innovating to enter new beverage markets.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from.