"You should find what you are passionate about and go do that" is something that I remember hearing in my 20s many times. This was well-meant advice coming from... read more →
A little reflection on a great company such as Xerox and how it missed some major opportunities highlights the importance of an innovation strategy for an organization. Xerox failed to... read more →
The highly accommodative Fed monetary policy since the beginning of the great recession is coming to an end soon. This policy has allowed firms to borrow cheap money and buy... read more →
Take a look at my article on Lighting industry where I present my analysis of the key opportunities and challenges for incumbents and new comers. It also shows why deep... read more →
When firms face a rogue innovation, their biggest enemy is often their past success. Consider Kodak and Polaroid. When they looked at their future, they saw a future where their... read more →
In this blog, I have so far discussed rogue innovations that were initiated by either peripheral players or non players. Vanguard was an example of peripheral player introducing a rogue... read more →
In my previous post, I wrote about the innovation of CT scanner. The CT scanner industry shows another forms of innovation that I call neutered innovations. Such innovations do not... read more →
In my previous posts on Kodak and Polaroid, I showed how two excellent companies failed to tame an innovation gone rogue. When digital camera innovation threatened the profits of Kodak... read more →
In my previous post I wrote how a large established firm such as Kodak clearly saw an emerging rogue innovation in digital camera very early. Many observers predicted that digital... read more →