There are various comments on the Kodak’s business failure that Kodak was late to adapt to the wave of digitalization. Kodak noticed its failure to adapt to the wave of digitalization. But Kodak noticed the coming of the digital age in 1970s and invented a digital camera, the first in the world in 1975. Kodak aggressively entered into new business, and promoted M&A, but they could not make use of these strategies for the profit center. Why couldn’t Kodak transform itself at the time of digital revolution?
Eastman made numerous advancements in improving access and ease of photography. Accomplishments include being one of the first to mass produce dry plates commercially, he invented transparent camera film in rolls instead of plates, and he also introduced the first “Kodak” camera which was considered the birth of snap shot photography. Even after Eastman’s death in 1932 the company is still going strong. There were great improvements not only in camera film and developing but movie film as well over the next several decades and Kodak was on the rise and very successful. By the 1976 Kodak had 90% of all film sales, and 85% of camera sales.
The roll of IP in the rise and fall of Kodak Kodak began as an imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company at 1880, it pioneered the market with it products. Until the 1990s the industry was slowly developing, enable Kodak with it IP to control the market (90% of film and 85% of cameras). Kodak was so dominant due to several reasons: 1. Dominant design - Kodak’s innovations became the dominant design for the whole industry. 2.
Oticon was number one in market shares of 15% in worldwide hearing aids products in the end of the 70’ because their technology advancement in miniaturization enabled them for the mass production of hearing aids. This position was challenged by the invention of the ITE (in the ear hearing airs device) that was a better technological substitute than the BTE which dominated by Oticon. The market share of Oticon dropped from 15% to 7% by 1987 since the introduction of the ITE. Lacking the economies of sca le from BTE, Oticon became the number three hearing aids behind Siemens Audiologische Technik (Erlangen, Germany) and Starkey (Minneapolis, USA). With these conditions, we can address the competitive requirements of Oticon in the audiology industry.
Fujifilm, a Japanese competitor, on the other hand, has been successful in the United States and global markets over 80 years of innovation collaborating in industrial society, people’s health, and global environment protection. How that impact in change management between Kodak and Fuji Films My recent research on Eastman Kodak and Fuji Films are the following: George Kodak was started one of the first to successfully mass-produce dry plates for photographers and then put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of consumers in 1888. So what he was demonstrating the great convenience of gelatin dry plates over the cumbersome and messy wet plate photographic prevalent in his days. Dry plates could be exposed and developed at the photographer's convenience. In 1880; Eastman began commercial production of dry plates in a rented loft of a building in Rochester, N.Y.
Diego Cardoso Arango – ID A01311240 Campus Bogotá – June 5th 2012 Philips and Matsushita (now know as Panasonic) are two of the most recognized electronics corporations worldwide and both had similar beginnings, as they were single-product companies that had rapid growths and that eventually encountered that their local markets weren’t big enough for their expansion. Through the last century they have experienced lots of changes in their organizational structures in their race to become the top-electronics firm in the world, but not always having the results they were expecting. Philips is a Dutch company founded in 1892 that started as a small light bulb factory but that in less than a decade took a leading position in the European market. It didn’t take long for the company to became also a leader in industrial research, expand the business abroad and even create joint ventures with other companies to share knowledge (such as the Principal Agreement that signed with General Electric to share patents). During the first half of the XXth century, Philips built National Organizations (NOs) throughout the globe and relied heavily on the strengths of each of them, giving them independence and power to react to market conditions, built their own technical capabilities and define their product development strategies.
Assignment 1: Kodak and Fujifilm Teresa Rivas Professor Suzanne Jezek-Arriaga BUS302 – Management Concepts Strayer University April 30th, 2014 Kodak and Fujifilm are well known companies in the households in the United States and across the world. Few people know the actual history of both companies and the competition they have been in over the years. It’s an interesting history on how both companies started and how they have developed and challenged each other over the years. Kodak was the pioneer in the industry dominating the United States market as well as many other parts of the world. Kodak specialized in the photographic film and camera market which enabled them to rapidly expand their operations.
Introduction Intel and AMD have been competing for over 40 years in the semiconductor industry. The chip industry’s major consumers are manufacturers of computers, digital consumer appliances, and mobile communications. Intel has continually been the worldwide industry leader. In 2002, AMD began to lose market share in Japan (slid from 25 percent in 2002 to 9 percent in 2004) and they started to worry about Intel’s exclusionary practices in Britain, Germany, and Japan. They believed Intel was offering rebates to Japanese computer makers in return for exclusivity.
It sounded like nothing else on the road, and even Elvis Presley longed to ride one. The Harley-Davidson Motor Company has had its ups and downs, and at times, the downs seemed as if they would end in bankruptcy. In the sixties, Honda, along with other Japanese branded motorcycles invaded the American market, and when sales at Harley-Davidson dropped drastically due to decreasing quality and increasing competition, the company began to look for buyers and was finally sold. However, the new owners of Harley Davidson knew little about how to restore profitability. The quality
[pic] An Attempt to understand the Case Study on Creativity at Apple Abstract Apple is known for their innovative products such as the Macintosh computer, ipod, ipads and the first legal, digital music store for downloading songs- iTunes. Apple Inc. is a multinational corporation which was previously known as the Apple Computer Inc. for its first 30 years of operations. But Throughout the past two decades, Apple is gradually losing market share in the Personal Computer market. Their market position has dropped from 1st to 9th position within 2 decades in largest Personal Computer (PC) firms. Their level of profitability has also significantly decreased from 20% to merely 0.4%.