The Collapse of Complex Business Models

Re:The Collapse of Complex Business Models by ekanes on Thursday April 01, 2010 @04:38PM (#1235338)

If you're interested in this, you should check out The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. He walks you through how large companies (most of his examples are from the hard drive industry) are often structurally incapable of embracing the revolutionary change which will inevitably overtake them.

http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Busin... (not an affiliate link)

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Re:The Collapse of Complex Business Models by gamble on Thursday April 01, 2010 @05:47PM (#1235468)

Seconded. The Innovator's Dilemma is a classic, and remarkably free of the usual business press BS.

It's particularly interesting today, as we're waiting to see who will survive the transition to SSD. Five years ago, who would have thought Intel would be king of the hill?

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Re:The Collapse of Complex Business Models by jimbokun on Thursday April 01, 2010 @05:53PM (#1235481)

They must have read that book.

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Re:The Collapse of Complex Business Models by michael_nielsen on Friday April 02, 2010 @11:26AM (#1236651)

I've heard that Andy Grove is a huge fan of the book. Forbes had a cover with Grove and Christensen and the sentence: "Andy Grove’s big thinker: Clayton Christensen tells how to survive disruptive technologies"

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Re:The Collapse of Complex Business Models by Daniel_Newby on Friday April 02, 2010 @04:43AM (#1236197)

If you count embedded SSD, Apple and Samsung share the throne.

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Re:The Collapse of Complex Business Models by dagw on Friday April 02, 2010 @08:18AM (#1236330)

When did apple start designing and manufacturing SSDs?

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Re:The Collapse of Complex Business Models by Daniel_Newby on Friday April 02, 2010 @08:49AM (#1236365)

Embedded SSDs. The iPhone and flash iPods have an internal SSD.

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