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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Page 148
... Japanese electronics industry was fairly small and lacked an indige- nous technical base . Needing technology and looking for a way to ultimately crack export markets , the Japanese went looking for technology and found it in the United ...
... Japanese electronics industry was fairly small and lacked an indige- nous technical base . Needing technology and looking for a way to ultimately crack export markets , the Japanese went looking for technology and found it in the United ...
Page 149
... Japanese companies did not have to wrestle with change . But the cir- cumstances were different in Japan and the U.S. The Japanese had little to protect , a great deal to gain and a willing source of supply of the missing ingredient ...
... Japanese companies did not have to wrestle with change . But the cir- cumstances were different in Japan and the U.S. The Japanese had little to protect , a great deal to gain and a willing source of supply of the missing ingredient ...
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... Japan does not seem to have these fears , or at least is covering them well for now . In a 1982 report entitled " Building an Industrial Structure for the 21st Century , " the Japan Committee for ... Japanese Luddites . The S 258 INNOVATION.
... Japan does not seem to have these fears , or at least is covering them well for now . In a 1982 report entitled " Building an Industrial Structure for the 21st Century , " the Japan Committee for ... Japanese Luddites . The S 258 INNOVATION.
Contents
Two The Age of Discontinuity | 45 |
A New Forecasting Tool | 87 |
Five How Leaders Become Losers | 113 |
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