Wrong reference. You don't know what you are talking about, you are just applying clichés.
Wrong. Kodak advantage was lost due to complacency and hubris of the upper echelons, and due to mismanagement.
Lack of vision caused the mismanagement. Old time thinking caused the lack of vision.
It was a volatile time.
Only the top management was not from Kodak.
You have any proof it was "old time thinking"? LOL
That's what you think is happening.
Maybe you can point out some specific instances of lack of vision right now as opposed to very clear vision, but lack of interest in courting and serving a mass market.
Right. Fisher invested more than $2 billion in R&D for digital imaging. The error was in target price point and specifications. They invested too early, business they built failed in the traditional market and also failed to find a new market.
My point was that with many companies 'right now' (and not necessarily talking about Kodak) it's not feasible to just change something in order to avoid loss of business in a dramatically evolving environment, even when that evolution is obvious to management. Sometimes it's just inevitable that the mass market will move away toward things that are completely different - too different to make changing something an effective response.
Yes, I tried to say they invested without understanding what market will prefer, invested too early (what was it, installing 10,000 kiosks, for example), and specifications and price points were nearly impossible to change when it became clear what the market really prefers. "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest" was ill-applied. They tried to push the market in a direction that wasn't competitive with the direction suggested by Canon, Sony, and some others (home storage and home printing capabilities).
It's a well known fact not a possibilty.
Thanks for bringing me up to speed. We've lost so many brands with the changeover to digital.
There was several levels of mismanagement.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Yes, I do. Photography is moving on in this fast developing technology.
True, my Olympus E500 with Kodak sensor, produced lovely, if "imperfect" images. I've often wondered if that technology and the people who drove it, had been free to develop it further what that would have been like.
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Consumers wanted "low noise" at that moment, aesthetics wasn't in high demand. Huge investments into the CCD technology Fisher made were a mistake.
In hindsight, you are probably correct. But to me, it's always been about more than the specs. Every fork in the road limits your ability to visit some places and enhances others.
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