Japan’s Quality from Borrowed Ideas—Deming and Lean Six Sigma Good Enough?
The impression that Japan’s quality from borrowed ideas out of the practice of quality lesson of Dr. Deming and Lean Six Sigma appears to be misleading. The reality is far…
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Rokon Zaman
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Lateral Entry in Innovation Race
The purpose of Innovation is to ferret out value from the market out of technology ideas. Therefore, we foster innovation as an exercise of generating Breakthrough ideas for releasing great…
Science Follows Tinkering for Scaling up Innovative Ideas
Often, we think that the scientific journey leading to technological inventions and innovations is at the core of the modern industrial economy. And tinkering is the act of the preindustrial…
Innovators Succeed from Ideas of Others
Profiting from ideas has been a great challenge. On the one hand, great ideas start the journey at loss. On the other hand, Apple and many others are showing magical…
Design Thinking for Managing Ideas Systematically
The challenge for ferreting out value from the market out of ideas is to systematically generate and keep releasing them. However, how to bring that much-needed discipline is an issue.…
Innovations Succeed at the Intersection of Seven Factors
How innovations succeed is increasingly drawing attention. On the one hand, due to innovations, there has been a growing gap in income and living standards between countries. On the other…
Bursts of Thrust Sustain Innovations to Penetrate Deeper into the Market
Innovations are in the mission of helping a growing body of people to serve their purposes increasingly better. Hence, we need bursts of thrust to sustain Innovation to keep penetrating…
Sustaining Innovation Failure of Walkman
Upon the sale of 400 million Walkman music players, what happened to it? Why did the Walkman become obsolete? Both successes and failures of innovations are not magical. Innovations are…
Sustaining Innovation Waves of iPhone
For showing magical performance, innovations behave like a seasonal crop. Irrespective of the greatness of the idea and initial performance, both its sales volume and willingness to pay (WtoP) keep…
Commercialization of Knowledge and Ideas—Glassmaking Story of Corning
Commercialization of knowledge and ideas has been a great challenge for finding sustained growth paths for firms and countries. Hence, some firms and also countries are spending billions in generating…
Incremental Innovation of Smartphone Camera—grown as sustaining and disruptive innovation
The challenge for winning with Innovation is not about generating a Flow of Ideas and engaging in random experimentation. Instead, the challenge is systematically ferreting out value from the market…
Assistive to Creative Destruction—Innovation Pattern
Generating technology ideas for systematically ferreting out value from the market has been a big challenge. Often, we find success as the magical outcome of the heroic act of a…