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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... Silicon Valley . Few people remember that in the beginning , and the beginning was in 1952 , silicon was not the stuff of which transistors were made . Germanium was . It is a basic chemical element , mined with copper , zinc and lead ...
... Silicon Valley . Few people remember that in the beginning , and the beginning was in 1952 , silicon was not the stuff of which transistors were made . Germanium was . It is a basic chemical element , mined with copper , zinc and lead ...
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... Silicon Valley Fever . New York , NY : Basic Books , 1984 . Rosegger , G. Adjustments of Domestic Capacity & Production to Technology Based Imported Competition . Amsterdam : Elsev- ier , 1982 . Rosenau , Milton D. Innovation . Belmont ...
... Silicon Valley Fever . New York , NY : Basic Books , 1984 . Rosegger , G. Adjustments of Domestic Capacity & Production to Technology Based Imported Competition . Amsterdam : Elsev- ier , 1982 . Rosenau , Milton D. Innovation . Belmont ...
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... Silicon Valley , Calif . , 129 Singin ' in the Rain , 251 skills : discontinuities and , 146 , 205- 210 new , acquisition of , 205-7 valley of death and , 207-10 Slice , 254-56 Smith , Goeffrey , 51n Smith Corona , 38 Smith Kline , 34 ...
... Silicon Valley , Calif . , 129 Singin ' in the Rain , 251 skills : discontinuities and , 146 , 205- 210 new , acquisition of , 205-7 valley of death and , 207-10 Slice , 254-56 Smith , Goeffrey , 51n Smith Corona , 38 Smith Kline , 34 ...
Contents
Two The Age of Discontinuity | 45 |
A New Forecasting Tool | 87 |
Five How Leaders Become Losers | 113 |
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