Steve Jobs’ Innovation Secret: Reinvention from Refinement of Borrowed Ideas
Steve Jobs magical innovation success has roots in reinvention of existing products out of refinement of borrowed ideas.
History & Observations
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Automobile Reinvention—China’s adventure to graduate from idea importer to exporter
Made in China 2025 places the automobile Reinvention agenda at the top. China began the journey of building the automobile industry by adding value out of labor and locally available…
Vulnerability of America’s Technology Superiority
The vulnerability of America’s technology superiority has already raised concern. But, is it due to just China’s IP infringement? Or, is there a systematic pattern of erosion of America’s edge?…
Deciphering Robots, Automation, and Jobs: for smarter understanding, strategy, and policy
Deciphering Robots, Automation, and Jobs attempts to shed light on non-conclusive ongoing discourse: future of work or jobs. In fact, technology has multi-dimensional effects on jobs. The net effect on…
Shedding Light on Industrial Economy—reoccurring patterns in light source evolution
Starting from building back better America to massive job loss threats in developing economies, the human race has been bewildered by daunting issues. At the core, it is the dynamics…
Strategies for Building High-tech Industry
High-tech has been a lucrative industry. Notably, it has been at the core of driving the third industrial revolution. Moreover, it will remain at the core of unfolding the Fourth…
Reducing Uncertainty in Innovation by Focusing on Discipline
Although Innovation holds the key in opening an endless frontier of growth, high-level uncertainty in systematically ferreting out value from the market is a challenge. Hence, we need to focus…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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