Engineering Business

The 3 Most Important Parts of a Company

What are the 3 most important parts of any company? Everyone has a different opinion. What's interesting is their answers and reasoning. Here's mine:

  1. Customers
  2. Employees/Suppliers
  3. Process

[article] Harvard Business Review: Disruptive Technologies

An interesting article from the 1995 edition of Harvard Business Review.

They outline why it is that market leaders often lose to disruptive
technologies; how to identify disruptive technologies; and how a company
can effectively embrace disruptive technologies.

Interestingly,

  • the reason why market leaders lost to disruptive technologies is
    actually because they're "too close" to their existing customers.
  • one method of identifying a disruptive technology is when there's a
    strong disagreement between marketing and engineering
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