Microsoft has been facing a profit destroying innovation for several years and has been avoiding it. Since Google applications arrived on the scene, Microsoft has been slow to react to... 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 →
As a practitioner, I used to think my company is different from all other companies. It was a popular belief; comparisons across companies would often bring a response - “but... 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 had written about the reaction of Kodak to the innovation of digital camera. There, you saw how an excellent company that led the camera industry... 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 →
Kodak, the pioneer of film roll photography ruled the camera industry for a hundred years due to its innovations around photographic films. Prior to film roll, photography was a cumbersome... read more →
So far, I have written a lot about how innovations sometimes go rogue and instead of creating value threaten to destroy value for established firms. The devastation caused by such... read more →