Disruptive Innovation

Disruptive Innovation

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8 More World Changing Innovations by Family Companies

Disruptive innovations help create a new market and value network and eventually disrupt an existing market or Industry. It usually comes with the consequence...
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8 Amazing Disruptive Innovations by Family Businesses

We live in an age of disruptive innovations. Take a quick look around you and witness companies such as Uber or Airbnb disrupt entire...
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Successful Mistakes and the Value of Perseverence

The entrepreneurial journey of Qais Al Khonji, Founder of Genesis Projects & Investments LLC - EOR Lab Services, Oman Qais Al Khonji did not have...
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Finding a Non-Family CEO: The Debbas Family Journey

The Debbas family business recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. For decades the family name has stood for providing quality lighting solutions in Lebanon and...
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Make It Happen HOLDAL 2020: The Unconventional Ways of the Abou Adal Family

Interview with Maissa Abou Adal Ghanem and Nour Abou Adal, HOLDAL Abou Adal Group, Lebanon The Abou Adal family stands apart from their competition due...
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Two Families, Six Decades, and Thousands of Cars

Interview with Mia Bassoul and Albert Bassoul Beirut-based family business Bassoul-Heneine is one of Lebanon’s leading car dealerships. Established in the early 1950s as a...
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Growth in Family Businesses – The Case of Lebanon

The Lebanese economy is dominated by family-owned businesses of all sizes. They operate under extraordinary circumstances and many of them have emerged triumphant surviving...
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Family Firms Facing Disruptive Innovation – 6 Facts to Bear in Mind

Form follows function, structure follows strategy, and everything follows a purposeful leader. Such is the distilled wisdom from many years of managerial studies regarding...
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A Family in the Business of Disruption

Interview with Nick Bloor, Founder of Technigro and the IVM Group, Australia Nearly three decades ago, at the age of 19, Nick Bloor dropped out...
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Why Family Businesses Disrupt – Or Not

Family firms would not survive across multiple generations without the ability and willingness to innovate and adapt to changing circumstances. In fact, countless revolutionary...