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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... plants doesn't hold up . Too many critical factors have changed . It's like assuming a great football player is ... plants were more economic than large plants and that they could be located all around the country at custom- ers ' sites ...
... plants doesn't hold up . Too many critical factors have changed . It's like assuming a great football player is ... plants were more economic than large plants and that they could be located all around the country at custom- ers ' sites ...
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... plants 20 percent larger than what his contract called for , and proceeded to sell the extra capacity to local , smaller customers at a great distribution cost advantage over his competitors . On the basis of this strategy of ...
... plants 20 percent larger than what his contract called for , and proceeded to sell the extra capacity to local , smaller customers at a great distribution cost advantage over his competitors . On the basis of this strategy of ...
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... plant , we add capacity to the indus- try . If demand hasn't grown ( and for the sake of this simple example , let's ... plants was the marginal producer we may cause that plant to shut down entirely because of our own actions . Think ...
... plant , we add capacity to the indus- try . If demand hasn't grown ( and for the sake of this simple example , let's ... plants was the marginal producer we may cause that plant to shut down entirely because of our own actions . Think ...
Contents
Two The Age of Discontinuity | 45 |
A New Forecasting Tool | 87 |
Five How Leaders Become Losers | 113 |
Copyright | |
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