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Fujifilm Succeeded Where Kodak Failed

Coaching Tip

Eastman Kodak was head and shoulders above all the others in the manufacture of photographic film when Fujifilm wasn't in 1963. just as worldwide film sales almost immediately began to fall. At the turn of the century, photographic film products made up 60% of Fujifilm's sales and up to 70% of its profit. What happened?

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Patents, Copyrights and Innovation, Oh My!

Coaching Tip

Then once a printed or photographed product was copyrighted, people, companies and industries began to protect their printed or photographed intellectual property via copyright protection in a court of law. . Source: Roger Parloff , senior editor, FORTUNE, July 23, 2012.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

“If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” ” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. Bloomberg/Getty Images. This may happen in two ways.

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. billion ten years ago, some in the industry thought he was crazy. Iger used the Pixar and Marvel purchases to convince George Lucas to sell them Lucasfilm (for about $4 billion) in 2012.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Place multiple bets. Don't go it alone.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Consider Fuji Photo Film.