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  • August 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Background Note

Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging

By: Willy Shih
Some technology transitions are exceedingly difficult for incumbent firms to execute. The bankruptcy filing by the Eastman Kodak Company highlighted the difficulty companies faced when their core business transitioned from an analog to a digital world. Kodak's business... View Details
Keywords: Technology Transitions; Competency-destroying; Digital; Analog; Digital Transition; Modular; Modularity; Technological Change; Radical Innovation; Incremental Innovation; Architectural Innovation; Modular Innovation; Sustaining Innovation; Competency-enhancing; Noise Propagation; Perfect Copying; Digital Music; Digital Media; Consumer Electronics; Kodak; Sony; Panasonic; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Transition; Change Management; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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Shih, Willy. "Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging." Harvard Business School Background Note 613-024, August 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

come from? So, then I started looking back, reading other columns. I called him up. I said, you know what? You should make a book of all those columns and put that together as a book. And he actually did. And bound it and sent it to me. And we-- a leather bound View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 31 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

fact the product of a sharp intellect and dozens of lessons learned over the course of a long career. "He's a street-smart guy, and he has this observational power. He had in mind designing the perfect company, which included the... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

as family, leisure, community, or even time for yourself and your tennis game. The advice is too simple and logical, he complained, and there is a "wonderful stress" on perfection and having it all. In his talk, titled... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

Execution Steve Kaufman, former CEO of Arrow Electronics, a large distributor of electronic components, often says, "A less than perfect strategy with perfect execution will beat a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

cases that makes them so enduring?" Saki, Sizzle, Sayonara Case: Benihana of Tokyo Written: 1972 Copies Sold: 269,584 Touring the United States in 1959 with his Japanese university wrestling team, twenty-year-old Hiroaki... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 27 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

col¬leagues would be able to tell the difference. After quite a bit of negotiating, Greg was ready to make a purchase: a copy of a Panerai Luminor Power Reserve men's watch, which typically sells for about $7,000 in the United States.... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50914 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Network Effects Aren't Enough By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman Abstract—In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

For Harvard Business School faculty, summer marks the perfect time to catch up on reading for work and pleasure. We asked six faculty what they're looking forward to digging into over the next few months. Jeff Bussgang wo of my books... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 28 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

In many emerging economies, the need to give people in poverty better access to financial services seems obvious. The mobile phone is a perfect vehicle, given their widespread adoption, even among the financially less well off. Designing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications
  • 26 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

judgments are changing, modest expenditures on copy research can prevent blowing much more money on ineffective messaging. Adding a few questions to standard tracking studies is a low-cost way to shed light on changes in customer... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

to copy certain colleagues on pertinent emails. "People want to increase their power by keeping that information confidential," Hall says. "But you have to make sure you cc the right people. It's important to keep in mind... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

your mistakes. And that means firing people who don't work out. And we're pretty good about that, too. Sahlman: Scott, I take it you haven't had to fire anybody? Randall: Exactly, I've made perfect hires my entire life! It's hard, and you... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
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