disruption

Kodak and the Incumbent's Dilemma Members Public

A good version of the well-told tale of how Kodak invented digital photography [http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/kodaks-first-digital-moment/] – 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
disruption

The death of the one hour photo lab Members Public

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 all-American photo shop. There are now just 190 left

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital disruption

LeWeb: From incremental to disruptive innovation Members Public

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 you look beyond a product or

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
disruption

The Innovator's Dilemma un-debunked Members Public

Massively disappointing article in The Guardian yesterday: John Naughton [http://memex.naughtons.org], 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 [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/13/clayton-m-christensen-theory-disruptive-innovation-debunked] . And the piece

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
disruption

31-3.4 The Best Practice Delusion Members Public

[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/81S5RrVaWUL._SL1500_-3577.html] I’ve been reading – and throughly enjoying – Leander Kahney’s book about Jony Ive [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241001773/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
31-3-14

Information wants to be… Members Public

You know that quote you always hear? > Information Wants To Be Free. It’s not the whole quote. Here’s the entirely of it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free]: > Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. …That tension will

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

The decline and fall of Quark XPress Members Public

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 [http://512pixels.net/2014/02/on-quarkxpress/]: > The application that once enjoyed upwards of 90% marketshare is now regulated to the sidelines. Looking back, the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
disruption

What question does an innovator ask? Members Public

“Why?” [http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/12/the-five-skills-of-disruptive-innovators/] : > 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
disruption