Rokon Zaman, Author at THE WAVES

Innovation Engine: for sustaining products relevant in a competitive market by building innovation pipeline

Innovative products like smartphones, televisions, and automobiles often experience rapid shifts in Market Dynamics. Despite their initial allure, consumer willingness to pay for these products tends to decline soon after…

Creativity must be fed with the profit making urgency through improving the quality and reducing the cost for ensuring systematic idea flow for wealth creation.

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Beyond Ideas: How Systematic Innovation Transforms Creativity into Economic Growth

The intersection of creativity, knowledge, and a structured, profit-driven approach to Innovation is essential for fostering sustainable economic growth through technological advancements. In this context, creativity generates novel ideas. However,…

Wealth creation from innovation demands scaling up through a flow of ideas so that quality keeps rising and cost keeps falling

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Wealth Creation from Innovation: How Scalability Matters to Drive Economic Prosperity

Innovation has always been a crucial force behind economic advancement, transcending boundaries and impacting societies at every level. However, Wealth creation from innovation demands scalability. From the modest beginnings of…

Beyond labor exploitation, unlocking wealth creation by moving from an extraction-based to an innovation-driven economy

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Beyond Labor Exploitation: The Path to Quality, Profit, and Innovation in South Asia

After gaining independence from colonial rule, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh adopted an economic development model rooted in labor-centric production, inspired by Gandhi’s philosophy of economic self-sufficiency. This approach emphasized manual…

Technology diffusion beyond Rogers’ model clarifies how technology adoption evolves through purpose-driven diffusion

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Technology Diffusion Beyond Rogers’ Model: The role of purpose and affordability across customer segments

Why were the military the first customers for many great technology inventions at the early stage of their lifecycles? Why did it take so long for individuals to be customers…

Technology saturation to reinvention for leveraging Leveraging successive waves in technology

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Technology Saturation to Reinvention: How Technology Waves Shape the Future of Innovation

The evolution and saturation of technology reflect a fundamental principle in Innovation cycles: each technology wave has its peak, decline, and eventual replacement by more advanced waves that draw on…

Riding the S-Curve in Ever-Evolving Technology Landscape

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Riding the S-Curve: Navigating the Growth and Saturation of the Technology Lifecycle

Like hard disks, digital image sensors, mobile phones, and airplanes, all technologies get born in an embryonic form. They grow through a Flow of Ideas, making them better and cheaper.…

Beyond design thinking attempts to blend conventional designing thinking with technology possibilities for meaningful ideation

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Beyond Design Thinking: How Emerging Technologies Propel Product Innovation

Design thinking has been widely celebrated for helping innovators design products that resonate with consumers’ needs. It gives the impression that Innovation is about art. Anyone with empathy and creativity…

Meeting consumers’ conflicting demands of higer quality at less cost by leveraging technology through incremental innovation and reinvention

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Meeting Consumers’ Conflicting Demands: Innovation in Action for Low-Cost, High-Quality Products

Consumers are in search of higher quality products at a less price to get their jobs done better. Hence, meeting consumers’ conflicting demands to make profit is a core business…

Riding the waves of reinvention has been gaining traction due to its growing importance in evolution of products and rise and fall of firms

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Riding the Waves of Reinvention: How Portable Storage Evolution Drives Global Market Growth

How has portable data storage diffused from the bags of a few scientists and engineers to the pockets of billions of people? Reinvention waves are at the core of market…

For expanding the market, due to limitations of traditional marketing or sales tactics, focus should be on improving quality and reducing cost through incremental innovation and reinvention out of STEM

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Expanding the Market: How STEM Ideas Transform Niche Technologies into Mass-Market Essentials

What it takes for expanding the market of products is at the core of economic growth and business success. Although Motorola sold only a few thousand units of Dynatec handset…

Rokon Zaman

Innovation Engine: for sustaining products relevant in a competitive market by building innovation pipeline

Beyond Ideas: How Systematic Innovation Transforms Creativity into Economic Growth

Wealth Creation from Innovation: How Scalability Matters to Drive Economic Prosperity

Beyond Labor Exploitation: The Path to Quality, Profit, and Innovation in South Asia

Technology Diffusion Beyond Rogers’ Model: The role of purpose and affordability across customer segments

Technology Saturation to Reinvention: How Technology Waves Shape the Future of Innovation

Riding the S-Curve: Navigating the Growth and Saturation of the Technology Lifecycle

Beyond Design Thinking: How Emerging Technologies Propel Product Innovation

Meeting Consumers’ Conflicting Demands: Innovation in Action for Low-Cost, High-Quality Products

Riding the Waves of Reinvention: How Portable Storage Evolution Drives Global Market Growth

Expanding the Market: How STEM Ideas Transform Niche Technologies into Mass-Market Essentials

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