Sustaining Industry Leadership Through Innovation Strategy Archetypes

Sustaining an Industry Obsession

September–October 2002 0740-7475/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE DEVICE SCALING has long been an accepted mantra, even an obsession, in the semiconductor industry, and if recent predictions are true, the march of deep-submicron (DSM) devices into the nanoscale era will continue. Process and device engineers will somehow find a way to overcome the looming technical challenges, just like they always have f...

Information Technology Industry Dynamics: Impact of Disruptive Innovation Strategy

This chapter combines disruptive innovation strategy (DIS) theory with the system dynamics (SD) modeling method. It presents a simulation model of the hard-disk (HD) maker population overshoot and collapse dynamics, showing that DIS can crucially affect the dynamics of the IT industry. Data from the HD maker industry help calibrate the parameters of the SD model and replicate the HD makers’ ove...

Performance Innovation Through Applied Knowledge Management: Thought Leadership in Organizations

Leadership and innovation in nursing seen through a historical lens.

AIM To explore nurses' archived accounts of Matron Muriel Powell's management and leadership style and the impact of this on the implementation and sustainability of innovation in the workplace. BACKGROUND In popular discourse, the matron has become an emblem of leadership. Although the title disappeared in the UK in the late 1960s as part of the re-organization recommended by the Salmon Repo...

Rural Health Innovation through Leadership Development and Organisational Effectiveness

Improving rural health service delivery is a major challenge in India as 73 percent of its population resides in rural areas. Recognizing the need to improve rural health service delivery, the Government of India launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005. The NRHM aims to undertake architectural correction of the rural health system through communitization, improved management, ...