Md. Rokonuzzaman, Author at THE WAVES

Due to the uncertainty about the availability of scientific knowledge, technology S-curve faces the difficulty to reflect the reality, leading to innovators' decision making challenges

Did LED, Fuel-Cell, Multitouch, Steam engine, electronic image sensor, and many other technologies follow S-curve like typical lifecycle model? If yes, why did many technologically sound companies fail and tiny…

We need to have a balanced approach for strengthening each of the four innovation drivers--as they are linked as a chain

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Innovation Drivers — empathy, creativity, science, and competition

Due to Innovation, we fly and drive as opposed to walking. Startups have become large corporations, and mega-firms disappeared because of it. Due to innovation, silicon-bearing sand powers medical imaging,…

Scale up start up demands a flow of those ideas which can serve customers' purposes better and reduce the cost simultaneously--by harnessing technology possibilities

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Scale up startups – crafting systematic path

How to scale up Startups is a daunting challenge. The growth of startups into mega-corporations like Apple, Sony, Microsoft, GE, Amazon, Google, or Intel is the inspiration for entrepreneurs. Invariably,…

A candidate disruptive technology must have unexploited economies of scale and scope, and positive externality effect

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Disruptive Technology – scalable reinvention core

Disruptive keyword and its variations, like disruptive innovations, Disruptive technologies, disruptors, and Disruptive innovation strategy, have become catchphrases. Due to the ease of use of digital technologies to recreate many…

Startup recipe is about pursuing reinvention due to strong urge of empathy and creating the scale effect for meeting the desire of offering better alternative in helping people get jobs done better

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Startup Recipe – empathize, reinvent and scale

Is not startup a heroic art or Eureka moment? Does startup recipe sound absurd? Perhaps, it does. Surprisingly, there are reoccurring patterns in the journey of Carl Benz, Edison, Steve…

As opposed to heroic art, disruptive innovation strategy distills from empathy of offering better alternatives in helping people get their jobs done far better than before

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Disruptive Innovation Strategy – systematic, sustained move

Harvard business school (HBS) has been teaching disruptive strategy for decades. Their professor Clayton Christenson is a Disruptive Innovation pundit. Are those evangelizations not good enough in creating and succeeding…

Digital disruption takes place due to the switching failure of incumbent firms to the creative destruction wave, created by change of mature technology cores with digital ones

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Digital Disruption – reinventions out of digitization

Camera, movies, books, music, and many others have already gone through digital disruptions. And many others are in the pipeline. Industry experts believe that a growing number of incumbent products…