Good to Great Demands a Flow of Ideas
Due to the urgency of building high-performing companies, Jim Collins’ book “Good to Great” has been sold more than 4 million copies. Based on investigative analysis of 1435 good companies,…
Good to Great
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Beyond the Eureka Moment: Transforming inferior beginnings into breakthroughs through incremental progress
Innovation rarely arrives as a sudden, fully formed Breakthrough, and true market success does not simply happen with an initial Eureka moment. Instead, great innovations evolve from inferior beginnings into…
ASML Monopoly in Semiconductor — where is magic?
How small the Transistor size, whether 5nm or 3nm, has been defining the success of silicon Innovation–fueling chip war. Where is the epicenter of $600 billion semiconductor innovation? It’s neither…
Cottage Industries Remain Small—does it always?
Cottage industry refers to a small-scale, decentralized manufacturing business or firm. Often, they are operated out of a home rather than a purpose-built facility. In the preindustrial age, the cottage…
Reducing Uncertainty in Innovation by Focusing on Discipline
Although Innovation holds the key in opening an endless frontier of growth, high-level uncertainty in systematically ferreting out value from the market is a challenge. Hence, we need to focus…
Innovators Succeed from Ideas of Others
Profiting from ideas has been a great challenge. On the one hand, great ideas start the journey at loss. On the other hand, Apple and many others are showing magical…
Incremental Innovation of Smartphone Camera—grown as sustaining and disruptive innovation
The challenge for winning with Innovation is not about generating a Flow of Ideas and engaging in random experimentation. Instead, the challenge is systematically ferreting out value from the market…
Assistive to Creative Destruction—Innovation Pattern
Generating technology ideas for systematically ferreting out value from the market has been a big challenge. Often, we find success as the magical outcome of the heroic act of a…
Making, Reengineering, and Reinnovation
Making, reengineering and renovation deserve careful investigation to figure out their merits in developing sustainable as well as self-growing industrial economy
Sustainable Development through Industrial Revolutions
Industrial revolutions are key for offering us products for improving our quality of living standards. However, the consumption of those products depletes our fixed stock of resources and damages the…
Questioning Subtraction Practice in Innovation
Subtracting features for making products simpler does not appear to be a smart Innovation practice. It runs the risk of failing to compete and sustain itself in the market. Hence,…
Winning Strategy of Apple vs Tesla
Neither Apple nor Tesla invented their great products. Apple redesigned smartphones with a unique feature of the multitouch user interface. Similarly, Tesla redesigned automobiles with new technology cores like electric…