> I'm getting sick of these Japanese who love nothing more than to put their country down.
Sony and many other Japanese companies once pioneered new products - and Sony was the ideal that Steve Jobs said he aimed for. In fact, it's pro-Japanese. Just not its present state.
Christensen (innovator's dilemma guy) thinks that present-day Japan suffers from large companies: the disruptions that are tomorrow's riches start out small and unpredictable. Small is simply not interesting to a big company; unpredictable even less so. In post-war Japan, companies were small: excited about small opportunities; and having little to lose, unafraid of risk.
(In contrast, he says, Silicon Valley incumbents often populate their usurpers, such as Fairchild to Intel, when frustrated workers want to exploit something uninteresting to management. This doesn't happen in Japan.)
The enigma here is Apple. The largest company in the world, yet acts like a startup in terms of risky new products in unproven new markets that start out small:
launching a product without consumer research is risky.
Sony and many other Japanese companies once pioneered new products - and Sony was the ideal that Steve Jobs said he aimed for. In fact, it's pro-Japanese. Just not its present state.
Christensen (innovator's dilemma guy) thinks that present-day Japan suffers from large companies: the disruptions that are tomorrow's riches start out small and unpredictable. Small is simply not interesting to a big company; unpredictable even less so. In post-war Japan, companies were small: excited about small opportunities; and having little to lose, unafraid of risk. (In contrast, he says, Silicon Valley incumbents often populate their usurpers, such as Fairchild to Intel, when frustrated workers want to exploit something uninteresting to management. This doesn't happen in Japan.)
The enigma here is Apple. The largest company in the world, yet acts like a startup in terms of risky new products in unproven new markets that start out small:
launching a product without consumer research is risky.