competition

In the followup to the "Ten lies" blog by Guy Kawasaki, I found the following comment by Tim Almond:

"Large companies are often too slow to respond, too arrogant of their size, or miss threats before they are already upon them. They are often trying to hold back the tide, instead of going with the flow, and accepting that change has occurred."

That may be true of many, but not, IMO, of the most succesful large companies. When I interacted with IBM in the 70s, it did indeed strike me that, despite their claims, and despite their large investment in research, they rarely brought totally new ideas to market. Why should they? Their profits were maximised by amortizing their design and educational costs over as long a production run as possible. However,

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