Changing World Order Due to Reinvention Dynamics
Industrial output is one of the driving factors of the changing world order. Along with the global share of manufacturing output change, the international order has changed over more than…
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Science for Environment and Economic Prosperity
For producing 750 lumens, we used to turn on a 60W incandescent light bulb. Due to its Reinvention as LED, we need to spend just 10W to get the same…
Flywheel Effect in Technology- Jim Collins’ Wrong Thesis!
In his Good to Great book, Jim Collins has used the analogy of a flywheel to explain the importance of continued and consistent performance improvement. It refers to the cumulative…
Second Machine Age — what, why, how, and next?
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee created a sensation by writing a book titled Second Machine Age. They argued that automation of cognitive tasks during the second machine age, machines will…
Managing Innovation for Turning Loss into Sustained Profit
If Innovation is about Eureka and success is just the heroic art of a genius, what is the role of management? In managing innovation, is it about just the art…
What is Innovation? —profiting from ideas
We are all after Innovation. It’s human beings’ inherent ability and urge to keep recreating. Due to it, our society has been progressing. But what is innovation, and how to…
National Innovation System–stop wasteful investment
There are a few standard things from Silicon Valley to Gothenburg, among the top 100 Innovation clusters. These are (i) a well-developed education system, (ii) research universities, (iii) venture capital…
iPhone Innovation from Refinement and Integration
For placing the internet in the palm of our hand and unleashing a revolution in mobile software, iPhone Innovation emerged. Its multi-touch user interface, first useful mobile web browser, integrated…
Software Engineering Management for Economics of Value
Is not the software technology and engineering capability good enough in creating high-growth software firms? Although most software companies are small and struggling with financial hardship, there are a few…
ASML Lithography Monopoly from Sustaining Innovation
In finding the answer to why great companies fail, Professor Clayton Christensen formulated Disruptive innovation theory. Two business school professors came up with a blue ocean strategy in pursuit of…
ASML TSMC Nexus Fuels Semiconductor Monopoly
In lithography, ASML is a monopoly. As a lead user of ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, TSMC has become a monopoly in high-end (5nm as of 2021) silicon processing.…
Big Ideas are Getting Harder to Find- how to overcome?
In an MIT Sloan Management Review article, upon referring to research productivity trend analysis, researchers of Sandford University lamented the rarity of finding big ideas. They concluded that “great ideas…