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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... tion of all service industries will see major technological changes before the year 2000. We are living in an age of discontinuity , and in an age in which the risk to industry leaders has never been greater . The results of a ...
... tion of all service industries will see major technological changes before the year 2000. We are living in an age of discontinuity , and in an age in which the risk to industry leaders has never been greater . The results of a ...
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... tion of the diameter squared , but the volume increases as a function of the diameter cubed . Thus if the diameter is dou- bled the surface area is increased by two squared or four , and volume by a factor of eight . Since the cost of ...
... tion of the diameter squared , but the volume increases as a function of the diameter cubed . Thus if the diameter is dou- bled the surface area is increased by two squared or four , and volume by a factor of eight . Since the cost of ...
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... tion , " Sloan Management Review , Vol . 21 , No. 2 , Winter 1980 , p . 59 . ↑ " A Research Whiz Steps Up from the Lab , " Business Week , June 24 , 1985 , pp . 87- 88 . those run by financial people by a substantial margin . 242 ...
... tion , " Sloan Management Review , Vol . 21 , No. 2 , Winter 1980 , p . 59 . ↑ " A Research Whiz Steps Up from the Lab , " Business Week , June 24 , 1985 , pp . 87- 88 . those run by financial people by a substantial margin . 242 ...
Contents
Two The Age of Discontinuity | 45 |
A New Forecasting Tool | 87 |
Five How Leaders Become Losers | 113 |
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