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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.".

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased , please stop reading. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here?

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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What Changes When AI Is So Accessible That Everyone Can Use It?

Harvard Business Review

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. Zooming in on the sales challenge helps to highlight the difficulty of business model innovation. New tools and strategies.