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Sustaining versus disruptive innovation

Usually, companies like Intuit fall into the trap described in Clayton Christensten’s The Innovator’s Dilemma: they are very good at creating incremental improvements to existing products and serving existing customers, which Christensen called sustaining innovation, but struggle to create breakthrough new products—disruptive innovation—that can create new sustainable sources of growth.

Saved 2 March 2014 / www.amazon.com ↗

#innovation #products #companies

Co-citation strength and research fronts

The method of measuring co-citation similarity and the threshold of co-citation strength employed in creating research fronts has changed over the years…

Research Fronts 2014 : 100 Top Ranked Specialties In The Sciences And Social #similarity #roots #years #count #products

Our pleasures are not material pleasures but symbols of pleasure

it strikes me more and more that America’s reputation for materialism is unfounded—that is, if a materialist is a person who thoroughly enjoys the physical…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #jet-aircraft #cost #aircraft #products

The licensed software product

Now, on the basis of these observations, we believe there is another kind of soft- ware artifact emerging, which has a strong social nature: a Licensed…

Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective #products #software-products #relationship

An ontology is a richer thesaurus

An ontology, like a thesaurus, is a kind of taxonomy with structure and specific types of relationships between terms. In an ontology the types of…

About Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies #ontology #Semantic-Web #information-systems #companies #taxonomy

Bitcoin, a currency no company controls

Bitcoins are an anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency.In contrast to older forms of electronic money, no company controls Bitcoin, nor ever…

Bitcoin: What You Need To Know | Technology | Theguardian.com #Bitcoin #transactions #companies

Conway's law

Conway's Law, that states that "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of…

Technology Radar July 2014 | Thoughtworks #law #organization #companies