N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Promoting Innovation and Creativity: Coopetition creates an environment that fosters innovation by combining diverse perspectives and expertise. Collaboration with competitors encourages the development of new products, services, and solutions, fueling market-disrupting innovations.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In today’s faster paced, interconnected world, there’s little doubt that change is the new reality; the new standard by which we now have to operate. May On How To Encourage Creativity & Innovation Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #11 – Liz Wiseman On How Leaders Grow Intelligence.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

They operate more as a partnership—a confederation of equals with different skills and talents but a shared calling and a collective zeal to see it through. Wise leaders know that success in the future will not come from incremental improvement but rather through disruptive innovation. Champion Diversity.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. By Daniel H.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). That past has a strong impact on how new opportunities are viewed (and often how they are ignored).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Several people I've talked to here in Munich expressed surprise, in fact, that Facebook hasn't seen its business model disrupted yet. But somehow I don't think developing content about people talking about disruptions to the content industry is really the ticket to success. How do you survive such a seemingly unending series of waves?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. I felt like those rules as I was reading what sort of makes these big bang disruptive innovations succeed, those rules I think are still in place.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 16, 2020

Brick & Mortar operations will slim down, reducing the latitude for Marketing experimentation in B&M vs. today. On the other hand, the caveat is that Online will continue to operate with minimum working capital & continental reach, to maximize ROI. Online will be the dominant business model.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Whether our leaders are considerate or brutal, honest or duplicitous, co-operative or combative, altruistic or narcissistic is very important. Co-operation matters. You may ask yourself: In what ways are you co-operating with others in the heyday of the coronavirus? Character matters.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

While few Chinese firms have fully embraced it, employee empowerment is commonplace in multinationals operating there. In a number of companies, including Corning China, Bayer CropScience China, Tianjin Alstom Hydro, and Xian-Janssen, I've seen empowered workers drive innovation and bottom-line performance.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 24, 2011

(This post continues the summary of fabulous stories and interactions at the 3rd Open Innovation Summit at BW's Center for Innovation & Growth: Practical Challenges of Global Open Innovation featuring P&G on April 21st.)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

” What you found is actually some evidence of the design thinking mentality and the design thinking process in larger, almost management operations and in strategy making and all of these sort of things that go beyond product design. It can be services, it can be experiences, etcetera.” It can work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Consider that Disney, Ford and even HP and IBM remained successful for many years after the departure of their founders operating much the same way. It needs to mix the core business with the disruptive innovation. They were infused with an indelible culture and preserved it for some time. But a leader should aspire to do more.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Since then, he has written over a half-dozen books and many more Harvard Business Review articles, almost all of which touch on disruption in some way. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. Absolutely.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

They were all ignored by the wireless operator, who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages and by the crew, who were focused on breaking the speed record. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2017

Bain and Company has recently published a worthwile article, debating on the question: What will the firm of the future look like? Among several characteristics, the authors also particularly anticipate future-proof companies to be required to manage two types of businesses by deploying distinct "engines".

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 29, 2020

Streak CRM operates in multiple areas like sales, project management, business development, support, hiring, etc. Streak CRM. Streak is a slightly different CRM compared to its peers. It’s a simple Chrome browser add-on. You can have every important feature of a CRM in your Gmail.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

However, when it comes to developing the breakthrough technologies and disruptive innovations that will change people's lives, free markets are much better coordinators of economic activity. This is because firms operating in free markets are much more capable of employing emergent strategies than are governments.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Identifying the Threat of Disruption. One of the central tenets of disruptive innovation is that companies innovate faster than people’s needs change. A phone call to an expert can shine light on a critical operational assumption. Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Continuous improvement doesn't have to be incompatible with disruptive innovation. What are your views about continuous improvement and innovation? But unless we think about continuous improvement in more subtle, nuanced, and creative ways, we may force companies to choose between the two.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

For those who would admonish Gerber for their approach to transformational innovation, it might be wise to consider that the company did exactly what it was designed to do: create operational efficiency. In it's infancy, it's designed to bring innovation to the market. This was their biggest barrier, not a lack of vision.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

To fully understand the context in which you operate, and the constraints therein, you need to dig deep. The situation can thus become a source of competitive advantage against those who aren’t able to adapt to the changing circumstances as quickly. Dig deeper. This brings us to our next key ingredient.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 13, 2017

Ralph Ohr explores the question: In order to increase agility, should organizations aim to become more nimble across their existing structures or should they capitalize on separated units/ventures - such as innovation or digital labs - being dedicated to initiate and develop explorative ideas and opportunities?

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 12, 2020

My deeper concern is that as we venture forward, as economies begin to reopen, we are going to be operating against what economists call the 80% economy. Many of the brands we see struggling in these initial stages are brands we already knew had problems. There is not a sense on the part of consumers that the coast is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Every company should dedicate a portion of its innovation portfolio to the creation of new growth through disruptive innovation. Budgeting Disruptive innovation' But companies need to think carefully about who makes the decisions about managing the investment in those businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Then again, maybe the real key to strategic success in the fast-moving fields Apple is playing in is to keep coming up with disruptive innovations — and be willing to bring them to market even when they disrupt its own products. Which is a lot easier said than done. Hustle is their style and their strategy."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change? At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. Disruptive innovation Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Many organizations were once structured to ensure that each function operated with maximum efficiency. then reorganized because this left them vulnerable to disruptive innovation. The main lesson here is that an innovation probably won't be well served by the organizational structure that supports the existing business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

But even though we all recognize that the trains have to run on time, who wants to be mired in tedious operational details when you could be thinking higher-level thoughts about competitive global strategy? Without solid shop-floor management, operations grind slowly. Naturally, the most-sophisticated suppliers gravitate there.

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