They were competing, just like everyone else. Kodak came out of the bankruptcy and still exists today, but now they deal with other technologies even blockchain. Their revenues are much smaller and they still struggle. But as Company Man says, maybe we can just watch them as a giant who revolutionized the photography industry and led it for 10 years. What they did best was no longer needed.
Dunja Djudjic is a writer and photographer from Novi Sad, Serbia. You can see her work on Flickr , Behance and her Facebook page. John Aldred is based in Scotland and photographs people in the wild and animals in the studio. You can find out more about John on his website and follow his adventures on YouTube. The irony is that many — CCD arrays, digital X-rays, etc. Kodak was never short on innovation, adds Glocker, but there was a disconnect between the research labs and upper management.
He remembers one time his boss discovered a new coating technology that he presented with excitement to the business units. We mothballed the equipment and went on to other things. Can we do this? Another pitfall: knowing where to focus innovation. Kodak had a choice in how it pursued innovation: If it focused on the need, it would have to find new ways to take and store photos. If it focused on the solution, it would have to find new markets for its chemical coating technologies.
Is it understanding the need or understanding the solution? When disruptive technologies appear, there is a lot of uncertainty in the transition from old to new, according to Wharton management professor Rahul Kapoor. In terms of the business model, they were quite the opposite. Kodak failed to build a strategy based on customer needs because it was afraid to cannibalize its existing business, suggests Wharton marketing professor George S.
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Gain with crypto! Spotting something and doing something about it are very different things. In fact, Kodak invested billions to develop a range of digital cameras. Doing something and doing the right thing are also different things. The next explanation is that Kodak mismanaged its investment in digital cameras, overshooting the market by trying to match performance of traditional film rather than embrace the simplicity of digital. All of that is moot, the next argument goes, because the real disruption occurred when cameras merged with phones, and people shifted from printing pictures to posting them on social media and mobile phone apps.
And Kodak totally missed that. It was so close. Maybe in it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site.
In real life, unfortunately, Kodak used Ofoto to try to get more people to print digital images. There were other ways in which Kodak could have emerged from the digital disruption of its core business.
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