Comments on: Inventor to an Industry http://orbitchange.com/blog/2007/05/07/wright-patt/ Sharad Sharma examines the transformation challenges facing the software industry Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:48:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Sharad Sharma http://orbitchange.com/blog/2007/05/07/wright-patt/#comment-3088 Sat, 12 May 2007 16:19:49 +0000 http://orbitchange.com/blog/2007/05/07/wright-patt/#comment-3088 Hi Joe - Love your comment about Wright brothers' jugaad innovation! Sharad Hi Joe - Love your comment about Wright brothers’ jugaad innovation! Sharad

]]> by: Joe Arnold http://orbitchange.com/blog/2007/05/07/wright-patt/#comment-3021 Fri, 11 May 2007 05:41:33 +0000 http://orbitchange.com/blog/2007/05/07/wright-patt/#comment-3021 I thought it was their dependency on patent law that led to their failure. After an impressive period of incremental development, they suddenly stopped innovating. Their workshop shut down. No experiments. No drive to continue to improve upon their design. In their minds, they were "Done". I think that this mindset lead to their demise. It was only a matter of time for someone to come along and improve upon their design. I think there are strong parallels we can make in the software industry. If development/innovation stops, a competitor will quickly blow past. (And talk about jugaad innovation, they invented flight out of bicycle parts!) I thought it was their dependency on patent law that led to their failure.

After an impressive period of incremental development, they suddenly stopped innovating. Their workshop shut down. No experiments. No drive to continue to improve upon their design. In their minds, they were “Done”. I think that this mindset lead to their demise. It was only a matter of time for someone to come along and improve upon their design.

I think there are strong parallels we can make in the software industry. If development/innovation stops, a competitor will quickly blow past.

(And talk about jugaad innovation, they invented flight out of bicycle parts!)

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