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Government as orchestrator: Ecosystem transformation at scale and speed
1 INTRODUCTION What role can government play in orchestrating ecosystems? The ecosystem literature has largely treated government as a background actor—a maker of rules, a funder of science, a regulator of conduct—but not as a central protagonist that actively aligns partners and activities to bring a specific value proposition to life.
'Old' Technology Responses to 'New' Technology Threats: Demand Heterogeneity and Graceful Technology Retreats
technology transition, racing vs. retreat strategies, market repositioning Ron Adner and Daniel C. Snow, 2010. “Old technology responses to new technology threats: demand heterogeneity and technology retreats.” Industrial and Corporate Change 19 (5): 1655-1675. Adner, Ron and Snow, Daniel, "'Old' Technology Responses to 'New' Technology Threats: Demand Heterogeneity and Graceful Technology Retreats" (2010). Faculty Publications. 8477.
Longtime listeners have heard Sarah and Matthew talk about ideas like “ecosystem disruption” and “adoption chain risk” and “value architecture,” all of which stem from the works of Ron Adner. Ron is a researcher, strategist, and professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University, and the author of two books, The Wide Lens and Winning the Right Game, both of which have been influential at Tenacious.
SUCCESS® Announces Weekly Bestseller Lists Across 8 Categories for Week Ending September 20, 2024
Dallas, TX (Newsworthy.ai) Tuesday Sep 24, 2024 @ 1:00 PM Central — SUCCESS®, the leading platform for personal and professional growth, today announces its weekly bestseller lists across eight categories: Business, Marketing, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Money, Personal Development, General Non-Fiction, and Women In Leadership. This weekly update provides readers with the most current insights into the books shaping success journeys across the nation.
GenAI Could Transform How Health Care Works
The word “disruption” is usually associated with technology substitution that offers a better way of accomplishing a given task. But its more profound realization is in ecosystem transformation that rewires and resets the boundaries across the old silos. This distinction is crucial in confronting the impact of generative AI. Consider Napster. The networked file sharing system upended the music industry.
GenAI Could Transform How Health Care Works
Computer Science 7 hours ago I Asked AI What People With Common First Names Would Look Like In Real Life, And I'm Sorry If Yours Is On The List BuzzFeed - Spencer Althouse • 7h "Every Brittany (but not Britney) peaked in high school." I'm sorry if your name is on this list. Disclaimer: the following images were created using generative AI image models for the sake of entertainment and curiosity.
Winning the Right Game
278 pp., 6 x 9 in, 32 figures Paperback 9780262546003 Published: January 3, 2023 Publisher: The MIT Press $24.95 Hardcover 9780262045469 Published: October 5, 2021 Publisher: The MIT Press $29.95 eBook 9780262362443 Published: October 5, 2021 Publisher: The MIT Press $29.99
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IAN MANN REVIEWS | Lessons from Kodak and Amazon: How to survive a changing world
Winning the wrong game is as bad as losing. That's why timing is everything, says Ian Mann. Winning the Right Game: How to disrupt, defend and deliver in a changing world, by Ron Adner Tuck Business School Professor Adner isn't a prolific writer, but a perspective-altering one. His impressive last book 'The Wide Lens' written 10 years ago was as important at the time as this book is today. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism.
Transforming From Traditional Competitor to Ecosystem Powerhouse
In our current competitive landscape, rivalry is shifting from well-defined industries to broader ecosystems. We see this in the transition from automobiles to mobility solutions, from banking to fintech platforms, from production lines to intelligent factories — traditional boundaries are collapsing almost everywhere you look. Competitors are coming from new directions and pursuing different goals from those of your familiar rivals.
What Tesla and Apple Both Know About Entering New Markets
Electric car maker Tesla recently seized headlines when it announced plans to enter the market for battery-based, power-backup systems for homes, businesses, and utilities. To the extent that enthusiasm about Tesla’s entry into the market is warranted — and I argue that it is — it is not because of Tesla’s elegantly designed and cleverly branded Powerwall system per se.
Even Your Best Ideas Will Fail If Your Part
By Ron Adner4 minute Read The following is an excerpt from The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation. There is a blind spot that undermines great managers in great organizations even when they identify real customer needs, deliver great products, and beat their competition to market. Philips Electronics fell victim to this blind spot when it spent a fortune to pioneer high-definition television (HDTV) sets in the mid-1980s.
Ecosystem as Structure: An Actionable Construct for Strategy - Ron Adner, 2017
Introduction Over the past 20 years, the term “ecosystem” has become pervasive in discussions of strategy, both scholarly and applied. Its rise has mirrored an increasing interest and concern with interdependence across organizations and activities.
It’s Not the Tech, It’s the Timing
Idea in Brief The Problem Over the past 20 years we’ve gotten very good at predicting whether a major new technology will supplant an older one—but we are still terrible at predicting when that substitution will take place. The Insight If the new technology doesn’t need a new ecosystem to support it—if it is essentially plug-and-play—then adoption can be swift. But if other complements are needed, then the pace of substitution will slow until those challenges are resolved.
Navigating the Leadership Challenges of Innovation Ecosystems
As our world becomes ever more connected, fewer innovations and initiatives stand alone. New markets require collaboration among multiple participants to take shape, and businesses need to form networks of cooperation with investors, suppliers, complementors, and even customers. Innovating in such “ecosystems” creates a new set of challenges for organizations and their leaders. Ron Adner, the David T.
Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age
The nature of disruption is changing. In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., 2.5-inch vs. 3.5-inch disk drives; LCD vs. CRT television; online vs. brick-and-mortar banks). Today, it is occurring at the level of ecosystems. The Internet of Things is a good example of this change.
Match Your Innovation Strategy to Your Innovation Ecosystem
Innovation ecosystems are characterized by three fundamental types of risk: initiative risks—the familiar uncertainties of managing a project; interdependence risks—the uncertainties of coordinating with complementary innovators; and integration risks—the uncertainties presented by the adoption process across the value chain.
Amazon vs. Apple: Competing Ecosystem Strategies
The most viable rival to Apple’s iPad isn’t produced by a traditional hardware firm. Samsung, Motorola, Toshiba, HP, RIM and HTC have hardly made a dent in Apple’s dominance. Remarkably, the leading challenger is online retailer Amazon, with its Kindle Fire tablet. The innovation game is changing. Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success. And as the Fire’s limited memory, ho-hum processor, and and lack of camera demonstrate, great products may not even be necessary.
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