Very good discussion of Kodak: #Innovation Is Hard via @zite

Innovation Is Hard

Very good discussion of Kodak: #Innovation Is Hard via @zite

Yeah. I think the clearest example of this is what happened in the photo-sharing world. Again, Kodak spots it; they pick up Ofoto in the early 2000s, so they have one of the early photo-sharing sites. I think really it’s only a couple mental hops for Kodak 10–11 years ago to say, hey, what’s our tagline? “Share memories, share life.” So what we’ve got to do is take this photo-sharing site and turn it into a true sharing site, where beyond sharing photos, people share updates about themselves and news stories and so on. Sounds a lot like Facebook, doesn’t it? The pieces were there, but what Kodak did with Ofoto was try and get more people to print out their pictures. It was the business it knew; it was the business model it knew. This is a very classic problem, where the real challenge facing companies isn’t really figuring out the technology; it’s figuring out the business...

Full article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/innovation/innov...

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If you get good at innovating in one domain, then you risk falling into a competency [link] trap:
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Very good discussion of Kodak: #Innovation Is Hard [link] via @zite
@openinnovation3 » 17 Feb '12, 4am
Innovation Is Hard - IEEE Spectrum: [link]
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#Kodak has got lot of things rigjht and still got it wrong #ieee podcast (with transcript) host Steven cherry [link]
@jdholt77 » 17 Feb '12, 12am
I think we at LN have the same problem, taking a new idea but casting it in our business model... [link]
@santweets » 16 Feb '12, 7pm
“Kodak got a lot of things right—and still got it wrong”. A good discussion about innovation and transformation. [link]
@Tribe_TV » 16 Feb '12, 6pm
Interesting conversation on @techwisepodcast on Kodak and why innovation is hard: [link]
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RT @timkastelle: Very good discussion of Kodak: #Innovation Is Hard [link] via @zite