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Technology disruption unfolds as reinvention waves of matured products due to the change of technology core-- unleashing creative destruction force, disrupting demands of products, inputs, jobs, and firms.

Technology Disruption–transforming products, jobs and business

The rise of electric vehicles (EV) risks disappearing half of automobile-making jobs and destroying oil economies. The EV Reinvention wave has already created demand for cobalt and other rare earth…

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…

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…

Netflix disruptive innovation is the outcome of Netflix's desperate move of unfolding radical innovation by destroying its DVD mailing service and switching failure of once dominant video rental players like Blockbuster

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Netflix Disruptive Innovation – renting to streaming

Netflix Disruptive innovation is a textbook example of the rise of a startup and the fall of a giant due to technology discontinuity. The underlying reason has been the discontinuities…

Uber failing due to the following of wrong thesis of creating economic value out of technology possibilities

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Disruptive Innovation

Uber Failing – shoddy digital startup magic

Uber reported a loss of $2.4 billion in the third quarter of 2021. Uber suffered operating loss of $3.0b, $4.1b, $3.0b and $8.6b in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively. Accumulated loss…

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…

Apple's innovation out of reinvention and refinement have made Apple a disruptive force

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Apple’s Innovation – disruption from reinvention and details

Innovation forks out more than 40 percent gross profit from close to $400 billion revenue in 2022. That is a great pinnacle of Apple’s success from innovation. Apple is known…

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…

LED light bulb invention offers valuable lesson from the rise of Nichia and fall of GE--understanding the dynamics and decision matter to create economic value from ideas and human capital

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LED light bulb invention – Nichia rises due to GE’s decision failure

Why does the LED light bulb invention make Nichia a success and GE failure? For almost 100 years, Edison’s company General Electric (GE) was the global leader in the ever-growing…

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