{"id":1997901,"date":"2014-07-27T12:28:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=1997901"},"modified":"2014-09-09T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T06:27:27","slug":"real-live-innovators-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2014\/07\/27\/real-live-innovators-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"A Real Live Innovator&#8217;s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/tag\/innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">innovation<\/a>, I pointed out some of the most common problems that innovators face (<a href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2014\/05\/04\/disruptors-dilemma\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Disruptor&#8217;s Dilemma<\/a>) and how incumbents can use regulation to stymie the disruptor. Peter Yared has an interesting post up on Techcrunch on how BMW is responding to Tesla&#8217;s onslaught and winning. Here&#8217;s the tl;dr:<\/p>\n<div class=\"row-fluid well well-small\">\n<ul>\n<li>Legacy companies can mislabel their products to leverage their brand, especially if an upstart compares itself directly to a particular model.<\/li>\n<li>Legacy companies are often willing to hodgepodge new technology with their older technology to stave off new competitors<\/li>\n<li>Innovators should not underestimate the power of a legacy company\u2019s large, lumbering sales channel.<\/li>\n<li>Legacy companies are often in numerous segments of a market and leverage their scale to beat an upstart\u2019s roadmap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the whole thing here: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/07\/26\/bmw-vs-tesla-is-a-real-live-innovators-dilemma-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\">BMW Vs. Tesla<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I wrote about innovation, I pointed out some of the most common problems that innovators face (The Disruptor&#8217;s Dilemma) and how incumbents can use regulation to stymie the disruptor. Peter Yared has an interesting post up on Techcrunch on how BMW is responding to Tesla&#8217;s onslaught and winning. Here&#8217;s the tl;dr: Legacy &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3471,9],"tags":[3081],"class_list":["post-1997901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing-insight","category-your-money","tag-innovation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}