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3D Printing – why it isn’t (only) a hype
In five years people might accuse me of contributing to a bubble related to 3D Printing (Swedish 3D printer manufacturer Arcam’s stock is already trading at P/E 63, whereas the American firm 3D Systems’ P/E is above 100…). Having spent my first week at the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) researching […]
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Nokia’s new Lumia and Technology Overshooting
Nokia is trying to regain lost ground in the mobile phone industry, this time by launching a highly sophisticated camera phone. The new Lumia 1020 offers 41 megapixel resolution. The main idea with all those pixels seems to be to enable users to zoom without losing image quality. This has been a drawback for many […]
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Disruptive technologies and how firms think about markets
In this video inverview at Francisco Marroquin University I argue that firms fail or succeed in a technological shift depending on how they relate to markets. Are markets regarded as established and fixed or thought of as fluid, complex and subject to permanent change? The brief interview can be found here.
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What visionary companies do differently
I got an article published at InnovationManagement.se, which discusses what characterizes a truly visionary company. Frequently firms try to predict the future and then adapt to it, but being visionary is more about creating or redefining the future rather than passively adapting to it. The article can be found here.
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Is online education a bubble or not?
Michelle Rhee-Weise, PhD at the Christensen Institute argues that this is not the case. I agree, and will get back to this issue later.
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Seminar on Disruptive innovation and Nokia at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala
Today I had the opportunity to present some preliminary research to professors at Francisco Marroquin University (UFM). Among other things, UFM has a great reputation for its openness and interest in evolutionary perspectives on markets. The seminar concerned the decline of Nokia and its implications for theory development. The overall argument I brought forward is […]
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Article about Kodak in Ny Teknik, 14th of June 2013
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Public Lecture at ESBRI, video available online
This Tuesday I gave a public speech at the ESBRI foundation in Stockholm on ’Kodak moments and the Collapse of Nokia’. A great event with an interesting Q&A session. ESBRI recorded the session and it is available here (in Swedish). Slides can be found here, and ESBRI also wrote a blog post summarizing the event.
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Public lecture in Stockholm tomorrow on Kodak Moments and the collapse of Nokia
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Sure, digital imaging killed Kodak, but the decline started in the 1980s
The graph below illustrates the number of Kodak employees over time. It suggests that the company’s decline was not only attributable to digital imaging and lost film revenues. The problems started much earlier and are largely related to the emergence of FujiFilm as a serious competitor on the global stage. Read more about the Kodak […]