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Strategies & Market Trends : Heinz Blasnik- Views You Can Use -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (1775)	5/23/2003 9:21:50 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4912

very few innovations are of the quality that spurs demand such that whole new markets are created Then my father-in-law has been very, very lucky because at 95 he has seen it happen many times in his lifetime. I do know that big innovations don't come from people who are busy making money manufacturing commodity level goods, or perfecting those goods, it comes from someone else who has been put out of work by the low cost producer. That person or group of people are desperately looking for something, anything that will make them money. There's a good reason that while the Japanese made a lot of money from the PC revolution, that revolution didn't start there, nor did the Internet. They were too busy perfecting the manufacturing process on the stuff that they already sold to the world, that same stuff that we used to sell to the world- cars, TVs, stereos, etc. While they were perfecting the last consumer goods we were inventing the next. If you told someone just thirty years ago that you and I would be having this conversation over stretched glass rods they'd have looked at you funny. I just received a job which was shot with a charge coupled device camera, saved on a solid state memory card, up loaded to a server somewhere across the country. I was sent a hyper-link to the file, I then "picked up" the file over those same stretched glass rods we're talking to each other over. After doing what I do, with software that was designed in the last two years, in five minutes that which used to take several highly trained techs and several days, I'm about to deliver it by burning a plastic disc with a laser, then I'm going to send it FedEx (a giant spoke wheel airfreight company that didn't exist when I first learned my trade). The great part is I'll never even see the client or talk to them, yet I know that my bill will get paid, electronically in a few weeks. If that isn't enough innovation for you, then you must be a lot braver than I am because I'm like most people, I'm having a hard time keeping up with just how fast my world is changing. -ggg-