When you listen to a presentation about digitization, innovation, or something like that, there is a massive chance that the speaker will mention Kodak as an example of a company that slept through the digital revolution and, therefore, no longer exists.<p>I'm looking for more handy examples, metaphors, etc. that could be used in presentations. It doesn't even have to be about digitalization. It could be about anything. But they should not be boring and worn out.<p>Thanks. :)
In Only the Paranoid Survive, former CEO of Intel Andy Grove talks about companies needing to see “strategic inflection points” and adapt or die. Examples abound in the book: IBM and the personal PC, Charlie Chaplin and Talkie Movies, and craftsmen and the rise of factories. The book is still considered important by those in business leadership some twenty five years later.
Two examples you might look into:<p>Typewriter maker Olivetti. Beautiful mechanical design and innovation right up until the end of the typewriter era. They successfully made computers for a while but couldn't compete in the long run.<p>Coleco. From leather maker to Cabbage Patch dolls to video game consoles. Then bankrupt after the disaster that was the Coleco Adam computer.
Microsoft and the Internet. While they're doing okay now with Bing and other tech, they really missed much of the early Internet land-grabbing. It's hard to picture now, but at one point Windows <i>was</i> synonymous with <i>computers.</i>
I would say there's an equally massive chance that the speaker will mention Sears who dominated the mail-order business until Amazon came along :D
How about the fact that Xerox PARC invited Steve Jobs into their labs to see what Xerox had been working on? Talk about the chickens inviting the fox to lunch!