Md. Rokonuzzaman, Author at THE WAVES

Despite low entry barrier and easy access to global market, digital entrepreneurship success is largely influenced by the capacity of attaining market power from scale, scope and network externality

Digital Entrepreneurship – easy to start, tough to scale

Starting from how we read books, watch movies and pay bills, transformations out of digital technologies have been popping up. The fusion of digital technologies forms a powerful technology core.…

Underlying theories and data indicate that job polarisation effect is caused due to the ease of automation of data and knowledge centric jobs of educated workforce

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Job Polarization – technology shaping future of work

New digital-native companies have been relying on algorithms to supervise the operation. Their algorithmic self-servicing tools and real-time monitoring have been taking the middleman out of the equation. As automation, software…

Kodak moment forms due to switching delay, causing devastation to incumbent firms

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Kodak Moment – collapse from disruptive innovation

Like Kodak, Nokia, RIM, RCA, DEC, and many other highly successful firms suddenly disappeared, giving birth to Kodak moment. The underlying cause of their sudden disappearance is the outcome of…

Startup strategy distills from economies of scale, scope and externality

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Startup Strategy – distills from innovation economics

Are not great ideas, heroic character, and risk capital good enough for startup success? Startups are pursuing creative waves out of great innovative ideas for Disruptive innovation. For succeeding, is…

Due to cost saving and ease of evolution from reuse of common assets among family members, innovators should leverage economies of scope as part of core strategy

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Economies of Scope – innovation strategy from commonality

At the core of Apple’s magical success is the Economies of Scope. To leverage it, Apple has been using the same software technology core in all its products, starting from…

Network externality effect is a blessing and curse for the innovation diffusion--demanding smart strategy to leverage it.

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Network Externality – affecting innovation diffusion race

The network Externality Effect has been at the core of the success of Facebook, Google search engine, and many others. On the other hand, it has been a seemingly insurmountable…

Quality improvement and cost reduction due to ideas from technology possibilities lead to technological economies of scale advantage

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Technological Economies of Scale – fuel startup success

Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and many other technology companies invest billions in developing new products and releasing the subsequent versions. But they charge only a tiny fraction of that R&D cost…