Case Studies
Case studies: why companies grow, struggle or decline.
Short, source-aware studies of business patterns. We label what is documented and what is judgement.
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Case Studies
Case study: Kodak, when the invention is not the business
A widely documented example of a market leader whose core business was displaced by a technology it helped to invent.
Case Studies
Case study: Nokia, leading a market and then losing it
How a leading mobile-phone maker was affected when the market shifted from handsets to software platforms.
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The four engines of company growth
Volume, price, mix and new markets: a simple way to explain where a company's growth actually comes from, and how durable each source is.
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