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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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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. 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

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. And so the odds of success of a new high-end disruption are correspondingly small. This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based

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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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The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future Is Now

Harvard Business Review

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. The market is taking these claims seriously, as well. This progress will speed up adoption and propel more experimentation and practical application.

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How Netflix Can Soothe the Mob but Keep its Disruptive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". They're the ones Netflix has managed to upset right now.