Avoiding the Fall of Innovation Leaders–10 choices to remain great
Human beings’ endless tendency to get jobs done better at less cost through inventing and reinventing has been the underlying cause of the rise of new entrants and the fall…
Disruptive Innovation
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Innovation Leaders Become Losers—ten reasons
Will the rise of ChatGPT unleash Disruptive Innovation effects on the business of Google and other search engine service providers? This is not the first time incumbent influential firms have…
Disruptive Technologies for Catching a New Wave—fraught with pervasive reinvention challenges
In 1995, Prof. Clayton brought a novel management concept for catching the new wave by introducing innovative tools—disruptive technologies. Since then, there has been a widespread acceptance of the role…
AI job loss–will it render all jobs obsolete?
We are all apprehensive about artificial intelligence (AI) and the loss of jobs. Artificial intelligence and the future loss of jobs has been making us curious. How far AI job…
Nanoimprint Lithography Disruption–Canon vs. ASML rivalry unfolds
Dutch ASML’s extreme ultraviolet ray lithography machine is a critical building block in the unfolding US-triggered Chip War. It’s perceived that without this ASML machine, China cannot manufacture sub-10nm microchips.…
Digital Transformation in Education–moving towards disruption?
Attempts to adopt digital technologies like personal computers, the internet, digital content, and multimedia projectors in education started in the early 1990s. Their roles were limited to offering assistive services…
Technology Disruption–transforming products, jobs and business
The rise of electric vehicles (EV) risks disappearing half of automobile-making jobs and destroying oil economies. The EV Reinvention wave has already created demand for cobalt and other rare earth…
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…
Radical Innovation–Managing Snowball Effect
Radical Innovation, Breakthrough invention, or Incremental innovation dominate the discourse of inventions and innovations. But how do we draw borders in segregating them? For example, was the digital camera a…
Netflix Disruptive Innovation – renting to streaming
Netflix Disruptive innovation is a textbook example of the rise of a startup and the fall of a giant due to technology discontinuity. The underlying reason has been the discontinuities…
Uber Failing – shoddy digital startup magic
Uber reported a loss of $2.4 billion in the third quarter of 2021. Uber suffered operating loss of $3.0b, $4.1b, $3.0b and $8.6b in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively. Accumulated loss…
Disruptive Innovation Strategy – systematic, sustained move
Harvard business school (HBS) has been teaching disruptive strategy for decades. Their professor Clayton Christenson is a Disruptive Innovation pundit. Are those evangelizations not good enough in creating and succeeding…