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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 10
Page 124
... Polyester . Du Pont , not understanding where nylon was on its S - curve , got little for its last $ 75 million of R & D , while Celanese progressed much faster with less money because polyester was just starting its curve . lon's ...
... Polyester . Du Pont , not understanding where nylon was on its S - curve , got little for its last $ 75 million of R & D , while Celanese progressed much faster with less money because polyester was just starting its curve . lon's ...
Page 125
... polyester and here Du Pont should have had an edge . Its manufacturing technology was already in hand . Du Pont was both the leading maker of polyester and the leading producer of tire cord . So you might think Du Pont inevitably would ...
... polyester and here Du Pont should have had an edge . Its manufacturing technology was already in hand . Du Pont was both the leading maker of polyester and the leading producer of tire cord . So you might think Du Pont inevitably would ...
Page 126
... polyester department . Nobody outside Du Pont knows the full story , but from what I've been able to piece together , it goes something like this . The Polyester Department brought its tire for testing to the Nylon Department and was ...
... polyester department . Nobody outside Du Pont knows the full story , but from what I've been able to piece together , it goes something like this . The Polyester Department brought its tire for testing to the Nylon Department and was ...
Contents
Two The Age of Discontinuity | 45 |
A New Forecasting Tool | 87 |
Five How Leaders Become Losers | 113 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Airbus approach Artificial Heart attack attacker's advantage BASF Bell Labs Boeing capital cash cost cash registers Celanese chemical chief technical officer chip Citrus Hill companies competitive competitors components consumer Corning corporate curve customers defender's Du Pont economic effort electronics engineers example germanium Gould happen Harris improve industry innovation integrated circuits investment Jack Kilby Japanese juice leader limits look machine makers manufacturers market share McKinsey ment million Monsanto Motorola naphthalene nology nylon orthoxylene Pepsi percent performance parameters phthalic anhydride plants polyester Pont potential problem product or process profits progress R&D productivity radials rayon replaced result S-curve sailing ships scientists silicon skills speed strategy success switch tech technical technol technological discontinuities Texas Instruments things tion tire cord transistors transition Transitron understand vacuum tubes