To: Mike Buckley who wrote (12096 ) 12/5/1999 7:51:00 PM From: Uncle Frank Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Sorry for the delay in responding, Mike, but I had a 4 hour battle with a 20 year old juniper bush that didn't want to relocate to the recycling pile. It was close, but I won <g>.I'm challenged First of all, it is not the bits and bytes that make high tech so special, so you don't have to be technical to understand what is going on <this rules out any more "capetologist" excuses >. Instead , as we will explain the detail in the next chapter, it is the discontinuous innovations that make the difference. Innovation is a concept we are all familiar with - new stuff makes us happy, we buy it, sellers sell it, it's called an economy. Discontinuity is the new idea. It means not compatible with the existing systems. 1) Requires that end users not have the ability to maintain program software of their choice on their personal hard disks. Other personal-choice issues are denied. 2) Requires that the IT department deploy and maintain fat server-thin client configurations instead of continuing with the status quo of networked fat PCs. 3) Requires that entirely new value chains be developed with regard to bandwidth, dump pipes, smart pipes, and virtually everything associated with getting the apps from the server to the end user. Moore also agrees with Luke in his assessment that the emotional changes are dramatic enough to be considered an aspect of the discontinuous nature. I can't immediately document where he wrote about it but I'm reasonably certain that I didn't dream about it. It might have been in Tornado instead of Game. Emotional willingness to embrace the changes are significant aspects of discontinuous innovations. Emotional willingness to embrace the changes only determines its rate of adoption.
