Introduction to Innovation, Elon Musk and Android's Dominant Design. (58)

This week’s podcast is on innovation, which often is discussed in fuzzy terms. I present some of the better language used to discuss this topic. And I present some frameworks from McKinsey and Professor Melissa Schilling (NYU).

You can listen to this podcast here or at iTunes, Google Podcasts and Himalaya.

The slides mentioned are below.

Related podcasts and articles:

• Forget the “Alibaba Ecosystem”. It’s About Collaboration-Based Industries and Business Models. (Jeff’s Asia Tech Class – Podcast 56)
• Alibaba, Android and The Emerging Art of Ecosystem Management. (Jeff’s Asia Tech Class – Podcast 57)

This is part of Learning Goals: Level 7, with a focus on:

• #32: Innovation, Adaptation and Resilience as Competitive Strategy

Concepts for this class.

• SMILE Marathon: Sustained Innovation
• Dominant Design and Architectural vs. Component Innovation
• S-Curves for Tech Performance vs. Tech Diffusion
• Increasing Returns to Tech Adoption
• Learning Effects and Learning Curve
• Network Effects
• Path Dependency

Companies for this class:

• Android

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