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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... ship with seven masts ( Exhibit 1 ) . It had been designed to compete against the new steam - pow- ered vessels that had increasingly taken cargo business away from sailing ships . Constructed by the Fall River Ship and Engine Building ...
... ship with seven masts ( Exhibit 1 ) . It had been designed to compete against the new steam - pow- ered vessels that had increasingly taken cargo business away from sailing ships . Constructed by the Fall River Ship and Engine Building ...
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... ships were clearly approaching their limits 50 to 60 years before the Lawson sailed . The fastest of the clipper ... sailing ships of the 1850s over earlier vessels was due to the increase in size , particularly in length , that had ...
... ships were clearly approaching their limits 50 to 60 years before the Lawson sailed . The fastest of the clipper ... sailing ships of the 1850s over earlier vessels was due to the increase in size , particularly in length , that had ...
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... boats were far higher than for sailing ships , and that therefore a discontinuity was probably inevi- table . It was against this background that the Thomas W. Lawson was conceived , built and put into commercial oper- ations . And it ...
... boats were far higher than for sailing ships , and that therefore a discontinuity was probably inevi- table . It was against this background that the Thomas W. Lawson was conceived , built and put into commercial oper- ations . And it ...
Contents
A New Forecasting Tool | 87 |
Five How Leaders Become Losers | 113 |
Seven The Attackers Advantage | 165 |
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