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Why Would Amazon Want to Sell a Mobile Phone?

Harvard Business Review

One of the basic principles behind Clayton Christensen’s famous conception of disruptive innovation is that the fundamental things people try to do in their lives actually change relatively slowly. Of perhaps even more interest is Amazon’s business model. Innovation Strategy'

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What Happens If Apple Starts Making Cars

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs’ successors are at least an order of magnitude more credible as disruptive innovators than the heirs of Ford and Sloan. But is GM a Blackberry and Ford a Nokia when Apple competes with a DX, a business model, and an iCar “genius bar” support network that makes their offerings look last century?

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

The camera was as big as a toaster, took 20 seconds to take an image, had low quality, and required complicated connections to a television to view, but it clearly had massive disruptive potential. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Companies often see the disruptive forces affecting their industry. Insight Center.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. photography.

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HP's Decade-Long Departure

Harvard Business Review

HP's sudden departure from a business model that has sustained the company since inception is symptomatic of the passing of an era. On September 3, 2001, HP announced that they would acquire Compaq. •On On October 23, 2001, Apple announced the iPod. However only one computer maker made the transition. Why is that?