Innovation: The Attacker's AdvantageIllustrates with examples from both old and new industries to explain how large, successful companies can lose their markets almost overnight to new, often small competitors armed with faster-developing technologies and better products. |
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... cash register . The tran- sition was unfolding . All this time , NCR was dabbling in computers . Trying to use them to break into newer lines of business , while leaving their traditional cash registers tied to the electromechanical ...
... cash register . The tran- sition was unfolding . All this time , NCR was dabbling in computers . Trying to use them to break into newer lines of business , while leaving their traditional cash registers tied to the electromechanical ...
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The Attacker's Advantage Richard N. Foster. DELIVERIES OF NEW CASH REGISTERS IN THE U.S. Market Share 100 % Electronic 10 % 22 39 62 90 Electro- mechanical 90 % 78 61 38 10 1972 73 74 75 76 18 Discontinuity in the Cash Register Industry ...
The Attacker's Advantage Richard N. Foster. DELIVERIES OF NEW CASH REGISTERS IN THE U.S. Market Share 100 % Electronic 10 % 22 39 62 90 Electro- mechanical 90 % 78 61 38 10 1972 73 74 75 76 18 Discontinuity in the Cash Register Industry ...
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... Cash Register , see NCR National Video , 134 Nautilus equipment , 48-49 , 155 Naval Research Office , U.S. , 206 ... registers , 36 , 40 , 106 , 139-40 stock performance of , 28 , 141 , 142 NEC ( Nippon Electric Company ) , 134 , 148 ...
... Cash Register , see NCR National Video , 134 Nautilus equipment , 48-49 , 155 Naval Research Office , U.S. , 206 ... registers , 36 , 40 , 106 , 139-40 stock performance of , 28 , 141 , 142 NEC ( Nippon Electric Company ) , 134 , 148 ...
Contents
A New Forecasting Tool | 87 |
Five How Leaders Become Losers | 113 |
Seven The Attackers Advantage | 165 |
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