Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]An increasing number of companies are accepting and practicing the concept of cannibalism: a company must destroy its current product line through innovation and improvements to create a yet better product before your lunch can (and will) be eaten by your competitors or the upcoming new kids on the block. If you don't do the destructive innovation yourself to create better products, you're toast. And quickly. Notice I said innovation for the better, not simply destruction of what's working. A product can _always_ be made better, and the company that continues to think it's got it all figured out is history. Sitting on a successful past is death. Marginally improving your products in a slow, methodical manner will leave you in the dust in the new millennium. The rules for success have changed, especially accelerating over the past year or so with the speed and intensity of innovation and knowledge provided to everyone via the Internet. Jim Nelon Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 02:43 > Subject: Re: [Leica] What I'd like to see. > > > But it doesn't fit the Harvard business model. > > Neither does Harvard! > > -- Anthony