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Kodak and the Incumbent's Dilemma

A good version of the well-told tale of how Kodak invented digital photography – and then stifled it until it was too late for the company: “Every digital camera that was

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The death of the one hour photo lab

Sometimes we in media think we’ve been hit hard by digital. Be profoundly glad you don’t run an independent one-hour photo shop: No other business over the past

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LeWeb: From incremental to disruptive innovation

What does truly disruptive innovation look like? The opening session of LeWeb 2014’s third and final day set out to explore that in series of talks. Here’s some liveblogged notes: Brian Solis – Innovation as an ecosystem What is possible with disruption when

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The Innovator's Dilemma un-debunked

Massively disappointing article in The Guardian yesterday: John Naughton, professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University, starts off promising to present a debunking of Clay Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma. And the piece started promisingly. But then this sleight of

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31-3.4 The Best Practice Delusion

I’ve been reading – and throughly enjoying – Leander Kahney’s book about Jony Ive. Ive himself remains somewhat elusive in the story, but his work leaps out, and in the end, that’s what matters. The stuff about his childhood and early entry into

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Information wants to be…

You know that quote you always hear? Information Wants To Be Free. It’s not the whole quote. Here’s the entirely of it: Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. …That tension will not go away It was coined

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The decline and fall of Quark XPress

Many of us of a, um, certain vintage will recall the days when Quark Xpress ruled the desktop publishing roost. Stephen Hackett charts its fall: The application that once enjoyed upwards of 90% marketshare is now regulated to the sidelines. Looking back, the app’

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What question does an innovator ask?

“Why?”: Innovators ask a ton of questions. In fact, they treat the world as a question. Managers ask ‘how’ questions — how are we going to speed that up, how are we going to stop this from happening. Innovators ask ‘why.’ They are the kid

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Understanding media disruption

Carlo de Marchis, writing on Medium, summarises the changes happening to media: There are 3 disruptions that are crucial for the future of media: The disruption of media consumption The disruption of media communication The disruption of media production It’s written in the

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#leweb - Should we innovate or disrupt?

Liveblog of Brian Solis talking at LeWeb Paris 2013 The next 10 years are either going to happen to us, or because of us. Disruption isn’t what we set out to do – it arises because of what we do. Innovation introduces us to

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Journalism's Groundhog Day - the excuse that won't die

Today’s the day that all the old arguments about what’s gone wrong with journalism and publishing come out to play: David Higgerson has discovered that the “original sin” argument that giving away our content free was behind journalism’s problems with the

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The decline and fall of the dictionary

The Next Web: […] another well-known brand in the print-based publishing sphere is unfurling the white flag and giving in to the digital revolution, with Macmillan Dictionaries ceasing print to go online only. While we were sorting books to go on the shelves in our

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Reed Elsevier: a business model under pincer attack

Robert Andrews highlights the political dangers to the traditional Reed Elsevier business model, by quoting a research note from Berstein Research’s Claudio Aspesi: We think the risk posed to the Elsevier business model is substantial. We believe investors are underestimating the disruption that

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Publication disruption denial: a lifecycle

Five steps: “We’re a print business and we always have been”. “Digital will be important, but we have to prioritise print, where our profits are right now”. “We’ll go digital first from the autumn”. “With regret, we’re closing the print edition”

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Why traditional publishers can't soothe the crying baby

I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction. Frédéric Filloux treads a familiar path, contrasting the transitional