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Nick: Chapter 8 & 9
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Chapter 8 and 9. Chapter 8 - Commercializing Emerging Technologies Through Complementary Assets. Chapter 9 - Disciplined Imagination: Strategy Making in Uncertain Environments. Refer to the idea of matking strategy planning an evolutionary process, that is your business strategy would be changing as the market changed, needs changed or technology changed. As information that was once unknown becomes clear, the strategy would adapt to this new information. Discipline works a strat...
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Nick: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Chapter 5 - Emerging Technologies and Public Policy: Lessons from the Internet. In chapter 5 Gerald Faulhaber takes us through what role government can play in spread and adoption of emerging technologies. While many people feel that government intervention has negative effects, which at times it does, Faulhaber shows the good that it can play in the development and integration of these technologies. 8211; direct government funded technology research for military use. 1) Governmen...
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Nick: Chapter 6 - Assessing Future Markets for New Technologies
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Chapter 6 - Assessing Future Markets for New Technologies. In chapter 6, George Day, delves into how to assess markets for emerging technologies and the challenges companies face in doing these market assessments. The question companies must address is, how do we determine the size and demands of a market that does not yet exist for a product that nobody knows about? The advantages of the new product compared to best available alternative. Barriers to Adoption -. Barriers that h...
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Nick: Chapters 11 - Appropriating the Gains from Innovation
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Thursday, April 30, 2009. Chapters 11 - Appropriating the Gains from Innovation. This chapter deals with how to extract profits from emerging technologies, and starts off by providing 3 hurdles that must be met in order to create profit: 1) technology must be successful, 2) it must create value. And 3) appropriating gains. This last one is the main focus of the chapter, how to capture the gains from a technology innovation. There are 4 main mechanisms used today to capture these gains:. Http:/ www.fo...
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Nick: Chapter 10 - Scenario Planning for Disruptive Technologies
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Chapter 10 - Scenario Planning for Disruptive Technologies. Scenario planning was designed to address complex and unceratin challenges facing companies in the face of emerging technologies. It has proved to be a powerful tool to change people's thinking, as well as that of entire organizations. There are 3 challenges, inherent in emerging technoliges, that scenarios address better than other planning or stategy methods, scenario planning:. Assess the internal consistency and pl...
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Nick: April 2009
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Thursday, April 30, 2009. Chapter 17 - The Design of New Organizational Forms. 1) organizational goals, 2) strategies, 3) authority relations, 4) technologies, 5) markets and 6) processes. Based on these 6 elements and the reconfigurations that firms can take with them, the author has come up with six relatively different and potentially enduring organizational models:. Organizations that are developed inside and organization that are unique and different and are then spun out to external entities and ar...
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Nick: February 2009
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Wharton Chapters 3 and 4. Chapter 3 - Technology Speciation. Technology speciation is the main topic of focus for chapter 3, more specifically, technology speciation and the creation of “new domains of application”. Technology speciation is the process by which technology evolves; there are 2 critical features of speciation:. 1) “It is “genetically conservative”, it is not triggered by a transformation of the population from within”. 8211; what new ways and in what new marke...
