Reviews
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Book Review and Summary: The First 90 days
Author: Michael WatkinsHarvard Business School PressWe have been told that we will be change agents when we return to industry. Now, how do we fit into our new found positions of responsibility? ‘Build sponsorship from the top and trust at the bottom.’ , said Ralph Katz in the first month of the SDM program. That Read more
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Book Review: Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation
This book was a required reading for Prof. Utterback’s ‘Disruptive Technologies Class. Written in lucid form, this book is informative and highly readable. The figure shows the Dynamics of Industry Innovation as layed out by Utterback and Abernathy. Most product innovation happens in the early years for a product class or industry. This fluid phase Read more
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Book Review: The Innovator’s Dilemma
Yes I read this one at least for third time. ( I wanted to put ideas I learnt in perspective.) idea of Disruptive Technology has been beaten to death so much that I had to find out if I actually understood it.( Here is a very interesting take on Christensen’s ideas.) Christensen has received a Read more
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Book Review and Summary: Inside the Tornado
Crossing the Chasm was just the beginning. We must now find our way through the rest of the technology adoption curve. The first challenge we face when we go beyond the Chasm is the Bowling Alley. In the bowling alley, you have a proven product and thus you are ‘for real’. However, you are yet Read more
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Book Review: Crossing the Chasm
A recurring theme in many courses at MIT, is the Technology Adoption Curve. I first saw the curve in ‘Crossing the Chasm’, a book by Geoffrey Moore, I bought and read about a decade ago. Today, I pulled out this work almost impulsively and began to absorb its theme. The differentiating factor between the Moore’s Read more
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Book Review: Angels and Demons
Dan Brown. Is he a brilliant author who gave us food for thought in the ‘Da Vinci Code’? Or is he just another snake oil salesman? This was the question that flashed through my mind as I read the ‘prequel’ to the ‘ Code’, ‘Angels and Demons’. Author: Dan Brown Angels and Demons Kindle Angels Read more
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