Innovation¶
Foster, R. N. (1986). Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage. Summit Books.
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Primes¶
- Logistic Growth
- And it suggests the general form of escape: to push past an old ceiling, change the parameters of the ceiling itself — new substrate, niche, or market segment — restarting a logistic on a higher plateau, with stacked S-curves describing long-run technology trajectories and ecological succession.
This sourceEstablishes the technology S-curve and the stacking of successive S-curves: a technology saturates against a performance ceiling (its natural limit), and continued progress requires a discontinuity — restarting a new logistic on a fresh knowledge base/substrate.
- And it suggests the general form of escape: to push past an old ceiling, change the parameters of the ceiling itself — new substrate, niche, or market segment — restarting a logistic on a higher plateau, with stacked S-curves describing long-run technology trajectories and ecological succession.
- Supersession
- In technology it is S-curve displacement — one generation of devices superseding another.
This sourceTechnology S-curves and the displacement of one technological generation by a successor.
- In technology it is S-curve displacement — one generation of devices superseding another.
- Three Horizons Analysis
- H2 in product strategy includes adjacent-market products, platform extensions, and technology-maturity advances that position the company for the next product generation, riding what Foster (1986) characterized as the S-curve transition between an incumbent technology approaching its limits and an emerging successor still climbing.
This sourceDevelops the technology S-curve as the canonical pattern of incumbent technology approaching its physical or economic limits while a successor technology climbs its own curve, mapping directly onto H1-to-H2 transition dynamics in product strategy.
- H2 in product strategy includes adjacent-market products, platform extensions, and technology-maturity advances that position the company for the next product generation, riding what Foster (1986) characterized as the S-curve transition between an incumbent technology approaching its limits and an emerging successor still climbing.
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