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

Harvard Business Review

For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. Two topical communities stood out as being linked to the largest number of the other topics: disruptive innovation and radical innovation.

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Business Lessons from the Titanic (in 3D)

Harvard Business Review

In true Hollywood style, the film depicts a massive iceberg looming over the "unsinkable" ship with the crew scrambling to avoid a head-on collision. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent. It's What You Can't See.

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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. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.” Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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Four Suggestions as You Face Your Industry's Steamroller

Harvard Business Review

Remember the scene in the first Austin Powers film where Powers, attempting to escape in a steamroller, warns one of Dr. Evil''s henchman to move out of its path? We asked nearly 200 life sciences executives about long-term trends that posed fundamental threats to their businesses and how management was dealing with them.

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Why Consumer Tech Is So Irritatingly Incremental

Harvard Business Review

Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. So many industries have in fact reached this point that, as things stand in the 21 st century, we know very little about when a high-end disruption will succeed. After all, technologies don’t dictate how they must be commercialized, managers do.

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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. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

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A Kodak Moment to Reconsider the Value of IT

Harvard Business Review

It's conceivable that IT's views could have saved the company, had the culture been different and had executive management been willing to listen. The company's version of the truth regarding core values was based around silver halide film and paper. Unfortunately, Kodak focused on the internal perspective.

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