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,…
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Digital Disruption – reinventions out of digitization
Camera, movies, books, music, and many others have already gone through digital disruptions. And many others are in the pipeline. Industry experts believe that a growing number of incumbent products…
Technology Transfer – seed for idea producer
Starting from the graphical user interface to multitouch, Apple did not invent many critical technologies in creating its remarkable Innovation success. Similarly, Sony did not invent Transistor or Electronic Image…
Creative Destruction – creation from reinvention
Instead of going to video rental stores, we click a button to enjoy on-demand videos. Similarly, physical books have become e-Book, and streaming has taken over CD albums due to…
Digital Entrepreneurship – easy to start, tough to scale
Starting from how we read books, watch movies and pay bills, transformations out of digital technologies have been popping up. The fusion of digital technologies forms a powerful technology core.…
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…
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…
LED light bulb invention – Nichia rises due to GE’s decision failure
Why does the LED light bulb invention make Nichia a success and GE failure? For almost 100 years, Edison’s company General Electric (GE) was the global leader in the ever-growing…
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…
Episodic Evolution of Inventions Leading to Migration
With the impending threats of losing inventions to China, there have been trading policy frictions between the USA and China. Despite intellectual property rights, inventors lose their grip on their…