Rokon Zaman, Author at THE WAVES

Countries leveraging STEM in driving reinvention waves, thus creating idea economy, succeeded to scale up and inward migration of innovation epicenter led to rise to high income status

History of STEM–powering rise of nations by creating idea economy

Competence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) has been the key to creating Wealth and high-income jobs. As the history of STEM reveals, UK-led Europe became highly prosperous by…

Crossing the Chasm of Geoffrey Moore fails to articulate the role of technology hurdles in causing chasms in technology innovation diffusion path and role of R&D in crossing them

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Crossing the Chasm–cause, means and opportunity?

An Innovation chasm signifies the slowdown or cessation of diffusion between two customer segments. Crossing the chasm refers to overcoming the pause of technology innovation diffusion between early adopters and…

Leveraging science the endless frontier in driving prosperity and creating decent jobs demands winning the global race of innovation

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Science the endless frontier–driving prosperity and creating jobs

Science the endless frontier refers to profiting from winning the global race of inventing technologies and innovating products for offering better means of Getting jobs done by leveraging the endless…

High income jobs for creating wealth from technology possibilities may endlessly create due to the urgency of sustained growth from scarce resource and endless possibility of wealth creation out of ideas

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High Income Jobs–Leverage Technology Possibilities

Of course, medicine and law are the top two high income jobs. But how do we create more of them? Indeed, we do not encourage more diseases and disputes to…

Importance of creativity demands a systematic flow of ideas for creating snow ball effect to empower faint idea to gather momentum and take off and sustain the flight--diffusing deeper and driving growth

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Importance of Creativity–how to fuel for driving innovation and growth

The importance of creativity is indispensable as it generates ideas for improving products in helping customers to get their jobs done better. Due to ideas, the quality of products improves,…

Importance of technology is vital for driving per capita GDP, quality of living standard and life expectancy of a growing number of fellow human beings

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Importance of Technology–fueling innovations in jobs to done

Despite 1.3m deaths in road accidents and 8.8m deaths from air pollution, why is the automobile density increasing? What is the substance of the debate of whether technology is a…

Jobs to be done better framework begins with observation on how customers perform their jobs with empathy and passion for perfection to profitable leverage technology possibilities in offering better alternative

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Jobs to be done–driving quality of living and prosperity

As Professor Clayton says, “Somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all new products launched into the market don’t succeed financially” because innovators lack focus on the customer’s necessity of…

Importance of STEM has been growing due its increasing role in creating economic prosperity, but advancement of STEM indicators alone likely causes waste

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Importance of STEM–prosperity from knowledge and ideas

There has been a growing urgency for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and research. Although Muslims’ STEM excellence in the Middle Ages was due to the urge to…

Autonomous vehicle innovation offers valuable lessons about the innovation diffusion pattern, crossing the chasm, and investment hype cycle

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Autonomous Vehicles–diffusion and hype cycle patterns

There was widespread speculation that by 2019, major cities of the advanced world will witness wide-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles. Hence, investment picked up, accumulating as high as $80 billion…

Disruptive effect on existing highly profit making business unfolds due to rise of reinvention wave and innovators dillema

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Disruptive–innovation, technology and disruptor

Is LED light bulb disruptive to the incandescent and CFL light bulb business? Similarly, are smartphones disruptive to the business of PDAs, cameras, PCs, music players, video cameras, torchlights, and…

Hype Cycle is caused by the stock sharks by manipulating the ignorance of small investors about reinvention dynamics, unleashing disruptive innovation effect

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Hype Cycle–Avoid Buying at Peaks and Selling at Troughs

The share price of loss-making Tesla sharply rose from around $30 in Jan 2020 to over $400 by November 2021—almost a 14X gain in just over two years. But it…

Endless possibility of profiting from quality improvement and cost reduction through endless flow of ideas makes innovation opportunities unlimited

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Innovation Opportunities–is it endless?

Has everything been invented? Are Innovation opportunities endless? Why do we think so? What is the justification in favor of such a belief? As unfolding innovation opportunities keep shaping the…

Rokon Zaman

History of STEM–powering rise of nations by creating idea economy

Crossing the Chasm–cause, means and opportunity?

Science the endless frontier–driving prosperity and creating jobs

High Income Jobs–Leverage Technology Possibilities

Importance of Creativity–how to fuel for driving innovation and growth

Importance of Technology–fueling innovations in jobs to done

Jobs to be done–driving quality of living and prosperity

Importance of STEM–prosperity from knowledge and ideas

Autonomous Vehicles–diffusion and hype cycle patterns

Disruptive–innovation, technology and disruptor

Hype Cycle–Avoid Buying at Peaks and Selling at Troughs

Innovation Opportunities–is it endless?

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