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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... began to ascend the S - curve of artificial heart technology . Another problem struck . Now that the heart kept pa- tients alive longer , the diaphragms began to give out . Jarvik replaced the rubber diaphragms with Lycra , an elastic ...
... began to ascend the S - curve of artificial heart technology . Another problem struck . Now that the heart kept pa- tients alive longer , the diaphragms began to give out . Jarvik replaced the rubber diaphragms with Lycra , an elastic ...
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... began , the next $ 15 million a 25 percent improvement , and in the early sixties the final $ 25 million brought only a 5 percent im- provement as rayon technology reached its limits . As with PA , if the companies involved had known ...
... began , the next $ 15 million a 25 percent improvement , and in the early sixties the final $ 25 million brought only a 5 percent im- provement as rayon technology reached its limits . As with PA , if the companies involved had known ...
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... began counterattacking competitors in both personal computers and in disk memory devices . One victim , Storage Technology , filed for bankruptcy in October 1984 , less than two years after its revenues topped out at $ 1 billion . Wang ...
... began counterattacking competitors in both personal computers and in disk memory devices . One victim , Storage Technology , filed for bankruptcy in October 1984 , less than two years after its revenues topped out at $ 1 billion . Wang ...
Contents
Two The Age of Discontinuity | 45 |
A New Forecasting Tool | 87 |
Five How Leaders Become Losers | 113 |
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