Comments on: Incremental vs. Radical Innovation http://innovationzen.com/blog/2006/08/04/innovation-management-theory-part-2/ Innovation Management, Business Strategy, Technology and more! Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:44:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Taylor http://innovationzen.com/blog/2006/08/04/innovation-management-theory-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-34369 Taylor Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:20:51 +0000 http://innovationzen.com/blog/2006/08/04/innovation-management-theory-part-2/#comment-34369 I am curious with your Kodak example because it is also quite relevant to the Henderson model. Is anyone aware who invented the digital camera? It was an in house member of Kodak who stayed within the company and developed the product. Now given that hederson says: “Incumbents invested more in incremental innovation and gained a larger market share as a function of historical market power, and they were significantly less productive than entrants in their attempts to introduce innovations that were radical in the sense that they made their existing capabilities obsolete.” P.267-268 It flys in the face of Kodak developing and implementing one of the most radical inventions of our time: the digital camera. I think this is where the dahlin-behrens method really should be recognized as the best method to identify radical innvention and radical innovation.... thoughts? I am curious with your Kodak example because it is also quite relevant to the Henderson model.

Is anyone aware who invented the digital camera?

It was an in house member of Kodak who stayed within the company and developed the product.

Now given that hederson says:
“Incumbents invested more in incremental innovation and gained a larger market share as a function of historical market power, and they were significantly less productive than entrants in their attempts to introduce innovations that were radical in the sense that they made their existing capabilities obsolete.” P.267-268

It flys in the face of Kodak developing and implementing one of the most radical inventions of our time: the digital camera.

I think this is where the dahlin-behrens method really should be recognized as the best method to identify radical innvention and radical innovation….

thoughts?

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