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Innovation Evolution Leading to Revolution

LED light bulb is a revolution in the lighting industry. In the past, incandescent and CFL bulbs also brought revolutions. Similarly, digital camera, iPod, electric vehicle, word processor software, personal…

Innovation S-curves unfold through stages of ferment, take off, maturity and discontinuity

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Innovation S-curve – episodic evolution

Innovation S-curve refers to the formation and growth of innovations reaching maturity through a non-linear S-curve life cycle. Like human beings, upon birth, innovations keep evolving through stages. The evolution…

Due to the uncertainty about the availability of scientific knowledge, technology S-curve faces the difficulty to reflect the reality, leading to innovators' decision making challenges

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Technology Managment

Technology S-curve – oversimplified misleading model

Did LED, Fuel-Cell, Multitouch, Steam engine, electronic image sensor, and many other technologies follow S-curve like typical lifecycle model? If yes, why did many technologically sound companies fail and tiny…

We need to have a balanced approach for strengthening each of the four innovation drivers--as they are linked as a chain

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Innovation Drivers — empathy, creativity, science, competition

Due to Innovation, we fly and drive as opposed to walking. Startups have become large corporations, and mega-firms disappeared because of it. Due to innovation, silicon-bearing sand powers medical imaging,…

Scale up start up demands a flow of those ideas which can serve customers' purposes better and reduce the cost simultaneously--by harnessing technology possibilities

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Scale up startups – crafting systematic path

How to scale up Startups is a daunting challenge. The growth of startups into mega-corporations like Apple, Sony, Microsoft, GE, Amazon, Google, or Intel is the inspiration for entrepreneurs. Invariably,…

A candidate disruptive technology must have unexploited economies of scale and scope, and positive externality effect

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Disruptive Technology – scalable reinvention core

Disruptive keyword and its variations, like disruptive innovations, Disruptive technologies, disruptors, and Disruptive innovation strategy, have become catchphrases. Due to the ease of use of digital technologies to recreate many…

As opposed to heroic art, disruptive innovation strategy distills from empathy of offering better alternatives in helping people get their jobs done far better than before

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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…