The Innovator’s Dilemma
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Read on Hacker NewsEven te business folks know this, at least those who read “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. All the very successful-yet-failing companies were unable to understand these compromises, and each was overturned by a newcomer that could (usually due to necessity, of course)
Read on Hacker NewsI’m not a scholar of the fall of SGI. But, I’m sure it has been documented in detail. AFAICT, SGI was a textbook Innovator’s Dilemma case with an expensive enterprise product that’s hard to give up in the face of cheap, low-margin competition.
Read on Hacker NewsThis is an internal form of the problem described in The Innovator’s Dilemma*: you optimize for what seems to work well and miss the big picture. I thinkers a natural Hayflick limit for companies. * you know: one of the 4 or 5 business books actually worth reading, that caused thousands of companies to start cargo-culting the word “innovation”
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