Economies of Scope – innovation strategy from commonality
At the core of Apple’s magical success is the Economies of Scope. To leverage it, Apple has been using the same software technology core in all its products, starting from…
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Technological Economies of Scale – fuel startup success
Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and many other technology companies invest billions in developing new products and releasing the subsequent versions. But they charge only a tiny fraction of that R&D cost…
Technology Adoption Model: weakness of diffusion theories
Why are people slowly responding to adopting electric vehicles? But why has the adoption of smartphones rammed up? Aren’t Rogers’ Innovation diffusion theory and Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm model…
Reinvention – winners, and losers keep unfolding
Despite knowing the age-old saying, don’t reinvent the wheel, why are we after Reinvention? In retrospect, Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Sony, and many others have created fortune out of reinvention. Due…
Car Evolution – competititive race in incremental innovation
Innovation is a synonym to Eureka with a big spark in a light bulb. But the car evolution offers us a different lesson. Unlike a big bang, Carl Benz’s automobile…
Technology Uncertainty – hidden traps and treasures
Upon developing the first digital camera in 1974, Kodak management envisioned no possibility of finding treasures. But, after seeing the 8×8 charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor of Bell Labs, Sony…
Endless Frontier Weakening – declining R&D productivity
R&D outputs have been growing. There has been very high growth in publications, patents, and STEM graduates. Particularly, outputs from China, India, and many less developed countries are showing an…
High-profit Ideas of Lens Making – a lesson for startups
We all are after business ideas with low investment and high profit. Where are those high-profit ideas? Here is a shining story from Taiwan—Largan. In iPhone’s value chain, which company…
High-tech parks – formation, growth, and replicability
The value addition in High-tech at Silicon Valley of the USA, Hsinchu of Taiwan, or Kulim of Malaysia is not the same. Chips designed by Silicon Valley firms like Apple…
Technology forecasting for predicting unfolding future
Not long ago, in 1992, Intel CEO Andy Grove shared a remark about the future of the smartphone, “The idea of a personal communicator in every pocket is a pipe…
Technology Adoption Lifecycle – from hype to reality
The technology adoption lifecycle is fraught with pervasive uncertainties. After the invention, the steam engine waited for more than 1700 years for getting into the adoption lifecycle. On the other…
Technology Lifecycle Management – leveraging creation and destruction dynamics
Technology lifecycle management is about inventing technologies, detecting latent potentials, predicting growth dynamics, leveraging opportunities, making the transition, and avoiding disruptive effects. It happens to be that technology potentials are…