Innovation

Who today remembers Little Giant, Link Belt, DEC, Wang, ICL, and who in a decade will remember Sun? I could go on. Innovation is not a safety razor, it cuts two ways. Clayton M. Christensen’s celebrated study, The Innovator’s Dilemma - When New Technologies Cause Great Firms To Fail, clearly illustrated the painful side of innovation. Chips, software and the internet now influence most of the economy and so creative destruction will accelerate. Take a peek at the advertising, newspapers, music, financial services and the automotive industries if you are in doubt. Christensen looked at steel mills, mechanical diggers, motor bikes, cars and information technology and saw the same pattern, killer products inevitably begin life as devices built with a low specification that initially address a limited market. If the technology has legs these devices will improve and eventually topple the entrenched giants. Like evolution the march of disruptive technologies does not stop. This week we wi...

Peg Faimon & Glenn Platt presentation on where universities need to go.

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This blog is an outlet for any random idea I have around new startup companies. Yes, most of these ideas suck, but it’s fun to kick some ideas around and hopefully meet some interesting new people in the process.

Sometimes it seems as though our disagreements—over everything from politics to business to the designated hitter rule—are more serious and more divisive than ever before. People are making emotional, knee-jerk decisions, then standing by them, sometimes fighting to the death to defend their position.

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