Md. Rokonuzzaman, Author at THE WAVES

Disruptive effect on existing highly profit making business unfolds due to rise of reinvention wave and innovators dillema

Disruptive–innovation, technology and disruptor

Is LED light bulb disruptive to the incandescent and CFL light bulb business? Similarly, are smartphones disruptive to the business of PDAs, cameras, PCs, music players, video cameras, torchlights, and…

Hype Cycle is caused by the stock sharks by manipulating the ignorance of small investors about reinvention dynamics, unleashing disruptive innovation effect

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Hype Cycle–Avoid Buying at Peaks and Selling at Troughs

The share price of loss-making Tesla sharply rose from around $30 in Jan 2020 to over $400 by November 2021—almost a 14X gain in just over two years. But it…

Endless possibility of profiting from quality improvement and cost reduction through endless flow of ideas makes innovation opportunities unlimited

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Innovation Opportunities–is it endless?

Has everything been invented? Are Innovation opportunities endless? Why do we think so? What is the justification in favor of such a belief? As unfolding innovation opportunities keep shaping the…

Muslims in Science lost the glory due to Europe's success in leveraging science for inventing and innovating for serving civilian and military purposes

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Muslims in Science–why lost the glory and how to regain?

There have been many writings about the glory days of Muslims in science over 500 years in the Middle Ages, from 700AD to 1200AD. Like Al-Haytham, who laid the foundation…

Managing technology core must focus on creating scale, scope and positive externalities for turning embryonic beginning into radical innovations

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Managing Technology Core–fuelling radical innovations

We all know the power of radical innovations. They unleash Creative Destruction force. More importantly, often, they cause Disruptive innovation effects to incumbents, repeating the Kodak moment, as outlined by…

Technology policy for development in favour of keep buying and assembling proven technologies offers limited scalability of growth

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Technology Policy for Development–in favour of proven or emerging?

Irrespective of greatness, all technology possibilities emerge in embryonic form, generating loss-making revenue. Besides, their possibility of being profitable means is uncertain. But once they are proven, often, they offer…

Subsidies and trade restrictions are not good enough for winning chip war, as it demands passion of winning through advancement

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Chip War Winning Strategy of USA Risks Failure

Huawei’s Mate 60 phone containing Kirin 9000s chip — 7 nanometers (nm) chip made in China by the SMIC—questions the future of the USA’s Chip war winning strategy. Retaining semiconductor…

Cumulative effect of incremental progression must cross the threshold for innovations and technologies powering them to qualify to be called radical

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Radical Technologies–incrementally nurture radical innovation candidates

Radical technologies and innovations are frequently cited in the literature and discourse on technology and Innovation. Is the smartphone a radical innovation or technology? Of course, the rise of smartphones…

Creation of scale, scope and positive externality effect due to cumulative effect of incremental advancement grow humble beginning into radical innovation

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Radical Innovation–Managing Snowball Effect

Radical Innovation, Breakthrough invention, or Incremental innovation dominate the discourse of inventions and innovations. But how do we draw borders in segregating them? For example, was the digital camera a…

Dealing with taking rational decisions and managing programs for profiting and preventing loss from latent technology possibilities is a core challenge of modern day engineering economics and management

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Engineering Economics and Management–Modern Day Perspective

In 2022, while mighty Intel was reporting eroding revenue, loss, and laying off experienced engineers, TSMC did report the opposite. Does it mean that Intel recruited poorer-quality engineers than TSMC…

Cumulative effect of a flow of ideas generated through knowledge and urgency in getting jobs done better leads to winning the global race--in developing idea economy

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Building Idea Economy–production, protection, and infringement of ideas not good enough?

Natural resources, labor, knowledge, and ideas are our means of creating economic value—driving prosperity. Due to the growing role of ideas in creating business successes, building an idea economy has…

Creating cumulative effect out of a systematic flow of ideas is vital for creating endless prosperity from ideas

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Ideas–for endless prosperity?

Over the last few hundred years, the world’s per capita income and population have been growing simultaneously. But our natural resource stock is limited. In some instances, it has been…

Md. Rokonuzzaman

Disruptive–innovation, technology and disruptor

Hype Cycle–Avoid Buying at Peaks and Selling at Troughs

Innovation Opportunities–is it endless?

Muslims in Science–why lost the glory and how to regain?

Managing Technology Core–fuelling radical innovations

Technology Policy for Development–in favour of proven or emerging?

Chip War Winning Strategy of USA Risks Failure

Radical Technologies–incrementally nurture radical innovation candidates

Radical Innovation–Managing Snowball Effect

Engineering Economics and Management–Modern Day Perspective

Building Idea Economy–production, protection, and infringement of ideas not good enough?

Ideas–for endless prosperity?

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