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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 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.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

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. It's the business model, stupid. What lessons can we take from Kodak's struggles? photography.

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The Inevitable Disruption of Television

Harvard Business Review

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation."

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If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In

Harvard Business Review

It poses a threat to carmakers’ business model of selling people cars. The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast.

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Ready to Innovate? Get a Lawyer.

Harvard Business Review

As disruptive innovations enter the market with faster velocity and increased firepower, entrepreneurs are finding themselves dealing sooner and more intimately with the law. Sometimes, the innovation is just too new, creeping out consumers and lawmakers who hurriedly work to ban it. and urged Congress to outlaw the technology.