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Digital product transformation has been unfolding as incremental advancement, bursts of thrust, and reinvention

Digital Product Transformation – incremental to disruptive

e-Books are books, but they no longer require paper, printers, binders, publishers, and visits to bookstores. Similarly, Tesla is on a mission of digitizing automobiles. Unlike e-books or autonomous vehicles,…

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

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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.…

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…

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…

Technology adoption model demands the integration of the effects caused by different types of innovations, externalities, and business model

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Technology Adoption Model: weakness of diffusion theories

Why are people slowly responding to adopting electric vehicles? But why has the adoption of smartphones rammed up? Aren’t Rogers’ Innovation diffusion theory and Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm model…

Reinvention by changing mature technology core with emerging ones leads to creation of winners and losers

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Reinvention – winners, and losers keep unfolding

Despite knowing the age-old saying, don’t reinvent the wheel, why are we after Reinvention? In retrospect, Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Sony, and many others have created fortune out of reinvention. Due…

Car evolution out of incremental innovation has been diffusing this innovation deeper in society, creating successes and failures

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Car Evolution – competititive race in incremental innovation

Innovation is a synonym to Eureka with a big spark in a light bulb. But the car evolution offers us a different lesson. Unlike a big bang, Carl Benz’s automobile…

Technology uncertainty has been a root cause of high failure rates of startups and suffering of incumbent firms due to the uprising of creative waves out of emerging technology cores

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Technology Uncertainty – hidden traps and treasures

Upon developing the first digital camera in 1974, Kodak management envisioned no possibility of finding treasures. But, after seeing the 8×8 charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor of Bell Labs, Sony…

Growing maturity and increasing gap between the start of reinvention waves and inflection points have been reducing the conversion of R&D outputs into economic value--resulting in weakening endless frontier

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Endless Frontier Weakening – declining R&D productivity

R&D outputs have been growing. There has been very high growth in publications, patents, and STEM graduates. Particularly, outputs from China, India, and many less developed countries are showing an…

A lens making company, Largan, offers a valuable lesson about how to create how value ideas and trade them at 70 percent gross profit

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High-profit Ideas of Lens Making – a lesson for startups

We all are after business ideas with low investment and high profit. Where are those high-profit ideas? Here is a shining story from Taiwan—Largan. In iPhone’s value chain, which company…

High-tech parks need a scalable growth for adding value in the global high-tech value chains

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High-tech parks – formation, growth, and replicability

The value addition in High-tech at Silicon Valley of the USA, Hsinchu of Taiwan, or Kulim of Malaysia is not the same. Chips designed by Silicon Valley firms like Apple…

Strategy

Digital Product Transformation – incremental to disruptive

Digital Entrepreneurship – easy to start, tough to scale

Startup Strategy – distills from innovation economics

Economies of Scope – innovation strategy from commonality

Technological Economies of Scale – fuel startup success

Technology Adoption Model: weakness of diffusion theories

Reinvention – winners, and losers keep unfolding

Car Evolution – competititive race in incremental innovation

Technology Uncertainty – hidden traps and treasures

Endless Frontier Weakening – declining R&D productivity

High-profit Ideas of Lens Making – a lesson for startups

High-tech parks – formation, growth, and replicability

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