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The Reason Why It Is So Difficult For Existing Firms To Capitalize On Disruptive Innovations Is That Their Processes And Their Business Model That Make Them Good At The Existing Business Actually Make Them Bad At Competing For The Disruption. Companies In Fact Are Specifically Organized To Under-invest In Disruptive Innovations! This Is One Reason Why We Often Suggest That Companies Set Up Separate Teams Or Groups To Commercialize Disruptive Innovations. When Disruptive Innovations Have To Fight With Other Innovations For Resources, They Tend To Lose Out.

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The Transformation At The Corporate Level Was Achieved By Selling Off Business Units In Old Markets And By Creating New Business Units To Pursue The New Opportunities. But The Individual Business Units Themselves Within Those Transformed Corporations Were Almost Inert To Change.

A Lot Has Been Written About The Internet Bust. From My Point Of View, It's Quite Clear The Internet Isn't A Category; The Internet Is A Technological Infrastructure That Can Be Deployed To Facilitate A Disruptive Business Model Or A Sustaining Business Model.

If You Ask The Average Guy On The Street To Name Five Companies That Have Truly Transformed Themselves Over The Few Decades, Hewlett-packard Would Be On Everybody's List. You'd Also Put On This List Ge And Johnson & Johnson.