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 sold took away from a film camera and we knew…
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A collection of 19 posts
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 15 years has died off with the near-totality of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…