disruption
Kodak and the Incumbent's Dilemma Paid 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 how
The death of the one hour photo lab Paid 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 Source:
LeWeb: From incremental to disruptive innovation Paid 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
The Innovator's Dilemma un-debunked Paid 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
31-3.4 The Best Practice Delusion Paid 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=0241001773&linkCode=as2&
Information wants to be… Paid 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 not go
The decline and fall of Quark XPress Paid 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 app’
What question does an innovator ask? Paid 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 the
