Rokon Zaman, Author at THE WAVES

Digital technology transformation has been changing its role from incremental innovation for playing an assistive role to creative destruction

Digital Technology Transformation Changes from Incremental to Creative Destruction

Digital technology transformation has been changing its role from assistive to Creative Destruction. Hence, unlike the past, the Innovation which will unfold around digital technologies will change from incremental advancement…

Science, technology and society is an interconnected phenomenon that demands us to perceive transformation from the perspective of signals and patterns

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Science, Technology and Society: Waves of Transformation

It present wave theory in explaining the transformation of the society due to the interconnectedness between science, technology and society

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Megatrends in Industrial Revolutions

There have been 10 megatrends in industrial revolutions. These megatrends emerge once we dissect each of the industrial revolutions, including the preindustrial one, in detecting patterns. They help us understand…

Third industrial revolution is the outcome of a series of creative waves of destruction due to the invention and continued progression of the Transistor

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Third Industrial Revolution—software & data

Unlike the past two industrial revolutions, innovations have been unfolding in the software and information space driving the third industrial revolution. The Transistor is the technology core. Continued progression of…

The second industrial revolution is due to the uprising of a number of creative waves of innovation driven by technology cores like ICE and electricity

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Second Industrial Revolution in Perspective

This writeup articulates the 2nd industrial revolution as the unfolding of creative waves around a set of emerging technology core

First industrial revolution comprises of a series of creative waves powered by the steam engines which kept unfolding during the period 1760-1870

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First Industrial Revolution Unfolded as Creative Waves

How does an industrial revolution form? Despite the long history of the human race, why did the first industrial revolution take place so late? Does it mean that prior to…

In the pre industrial age, our ancestors were busy in inventing and innovating for finding better means in getting jobs done, but they could not scale them up resulting in slow growth of quality of living standards and economic prosperity.

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Pre-industrial Age Seeded Industrial Revolutions

It may be surprising to many of us that pre-industrial age seeded industrial revolutions. For example, the hero engine or aeolipile invented in the 1st century AD is the precursor…

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Design Thinking for Innovation

Design thinking for Innovation is more than innovating completely new products and experimenting with them in the market. Instead, it is about systematically generating ideas from strategic areas for nurturing,…

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Timing of Ideas for Systematic Ferreting

Ideas are like ferrets to extract value from the market for innovators and Startups. However, the quality of ideas alone does not determine their capability. There are at least seven…

Walkman to iPod evolution reveals a pattern of systematic thinking of Apple's design team in generating ideas for showing innovation magic

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Walkman to iPod—revealing pattern

The magical emergence and evolution of Walkman to iPod is the outcome of applying clear thinking in generating ideas and profiting from them. There are underlying patterns beneath the magical…

Frugal innovation and Jugaad are attempting to patronize tinkering based local innovation, and producing strip-down versions of industrial products

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Frugal Innovation and Jugaad—slow lane?

Despite promises, neither frugal innovation nor Jugaad offers us any novel approach of offering scalable growth path to the quality of living standards

Rokon Zaman

Digital Technology Transformation Changes from Incremental to Creative Destruction

Science, Technology and Society: Waves of Transformation

Megatrends in Industrial Revolutions

Third Industrial Revolution—software & data

Second Industrial Revolution in Perspective

First Industrial Revolution Unfolded as Creative Waves

Pre-industrial Age Seeded Industrial Revolutions

Design Thinking for Innovation

Timing of Ideas for Systematic Ferreting

Walkman to iPod—revealing pattern

Frugal Innovation and Jugaad—slow lane?

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