[ih] Review: Yasha Levine's "Surveillance Valley"

[Craig Partridge]

Got a citation about big companies -- most work I've seen (e.g. the
Innovator's Dilemma) suggests the reverse.

Certainly what I've seen is that big companies specialize in squashing
innovation.  Most inventive folks I know have a horror story or two or
three or four.

Craig

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com> wrote:

> The research on innovation very clearly shows that significant, game
> changing inventions almost always come from big companies. The myth of two
> dudes in a garage ignores the fact that it takes big money to take big
> risks.
>
> Apple succeeded with the iPhone while Handspring and Nokia failed in large
> part because of the music infrastructure the company had built around the
> iPod, another second or third mover that succeeded where more ad hoc MP3
> players had failed.
>
> On Jul 3, 2018, at 6:39 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:
>
> On 7/2/2018 10:05 AM, Andrew G. Malis wrote:
>
> don’t know, I would count the iPhone as a “big invention”. It completely
> changed mobile telephony and created the entire app market.
>
>
>
> The iPhone popularized a concept but was arguably not first-mover to it.
>
> I'm not sure whether this is entirely accurate, by my own experience
> would give Handspring the credit for hitting the milestone, and General
> Magic for establishing the target (with Newton being an odd form of
> take-back by Apple, since GM was a spinoff.)
>
> The point is that for both examples, it took companies that were not
> embedded in the main corporate culture (as indeed PARC was not).
>
> The momentum, immediacy and encrusted bureaucracy of essentially all
> larger companies makes it exceedingly difficult for any of them to
> start, nurture and protect a serious innovation environment.
>
> While there are exceptions sprinkled over time, they are only that.
>
> d/
>
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