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1 CREATIVE DESTRUCTION Monday 12 th April 2010 Stephen Spring [email protected]

1 CREATIVE DESTRUCTION Monday 12 th April 2010 Stephen Spring [email protected]

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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION

Monday 12th April 2010

Stephen Spring

[email protected]

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Puzzle: What do these companies have in common?

• Polaroid• Sears• Xerox• US Steel• Intel• Levi Strauss• USPS

• Kodak• IBM• ATT• Bausch & Lomb• Roche• Ciba Geigy• DEC

Ref Mike Tushman HBS

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Solution:

They all created industries. They were all industry leaders and they all crashed.

Why?

It is the job of leaders to make sure that their companies remains successful.

Ref Mike Tushman HBS

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Swiss Watch Industry

• 1970– 1,600 small & entrepreneurial firms– 90,000 employees– Focus on mechanical watches– Control of watch industry– Good profits

• 1980– 45,000 employees retrenched– Swiss watch industry is bankrupt

What happened?

Ref Mike Tushman HBS

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Evolution of Watch Industry 1970 - 1980

Markets

Existing

New

Incremental Architectural Discontinuous

Type of Innovation

Quartz

Mechanical

Ref Mike Tushman HBS

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Evolution of Watch Industry 1980 - 1985

Markets

Existing

New

Incremental Architectural Discontinuous

Type of Innovation

Swatch

Quartz

Ref Mike Tushman HBS

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Innovation Streams

Markets

Existing

New

Incremental Architectural Discontinuous

Type of Innovation

Mechanical WatchesDisk DrivesBias Ply TyresPrinted NewspapersHard Contact Lenses

Fashion Lenses Smaller Disk Drives Quartz Watches

Web-based News

Radial TyresDaily Disposable Lenses

Ref Mike Tushman HBS

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Radial Tires

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Evolution of US Steel Industry

Ref Mike Tushman HBS

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Vienna 1911

“Entrepreneurs blow gales of creative destruction – creating new products, new companies, and new industries”

Schumpeter

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Schumpeter

An Economy Driven by Entrepreneurship

“The implementation of change is through innovation that takes market share from existing companies”

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Innovation as Entrepreneurship

Setting up a new productive function:• The introduction of a new good;• The introduction of a new method of production;• The opening of a new market;• The conquest of a new source of supply of new

materials;• The carrying out of a new organization of an industry

Schumpeter 1939

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In classical markets competition depends on continuity and leads to squeezed profits & operational effectiveness

Supply Demand

Equilibrium

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But Turbulence brings new products

Economics 101

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Ubiquity of Creative Destruction

“…it is not (price and output) competition which counts, but the competition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organisation.”

Joseph Schumpeter, 1939

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Businesses under threat

• Print newspapers vs online advertising vs onlline newspapers • Corner stores vs big box stores vs online stores• Phone directories vs Google• Free to air vs cable vs Internet TV• Post Office vs Fedex vs UPS• Full service airlines vs discount airlines• Phone companies vs Skype• Theatre vs Movies vs DVD vs iTunes vs iTV• Music Shops vs iTunes• Borders vs Amazon• Walmart vs Amazon . . . . . . etc.

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The Entrepreneurship Process

ada

Fashioningthe

Opportunity

Initiating the

Business

Capturing the

Opportunity

Framing the Entrepreneurial

Vision

Managing the Entrepreneurial

Process

Regeneration

Entrepreneurial Environment

Revitalisation Stagnation Bureaucratisation

adaptation

evolution

dynamic capabilitiespunctuated equilibrium

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GrowthMature

Emergence

Dominant

Design

Product Process Substitution

Major Product Minor process

Major Process Minor Product

Minor Product Minor Process

Major Product Minor Process

High High High High

Dominant innovation types

Learning Requirements

• Innovators create new markets by introducing new products

• Earn substantial margins

• Generate new jobs to satisfy demand

Dominant Innovation Types over Product Life Cycles

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Long-Term Survivor Performance(1917-1987, 61 defunct)

Foster and Kaplan

Survivors did not perform. As a group, long term return to investors during 1917 – 1987 period was 20% less than of the overall market

Q: Why do financial markets outperform corporations?

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Long-lived Firms that Have Changed Industries

Company Est. Original Current

Goodrich 1870 Fire Hose Aerospace

Nokia 1865 Lumber Mobiles

3M 1902 Mining Office Supplies

Amex 1850 Express Delivery Financial Services

J & J 1885 Bandages Pharmaceuticals

Black&Decker 1910 Bottle Cap Mach Power Tools

Sunbeam 1890 Horse Clippers Appliances

Marriot 1927 Root BeerHotels

Nucor 1897 Automobiles Mini-mill Steel

Tandy 1899 Leather Retail Stores

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Financial Markets

• Markets, including Capital Markets, are “informal aggregations of buyers, sellers, their owners, and other intermediaries who come together for the purpose of economic change.”

• Capital Markets are markets where capital is exchanged - money for equities/debt.

• Capital Markets have rules for entrance, conduct and exit.• They are designed for admission of new competitors and elimination

of weak ones• Efficient Capital Markets eliminate the old without reflection or

remorse.

Markets lack culture, leadership, and emotion, do not experience the bursts of desperation, depression, denial and hope that corporations face.

Foster and Kaplan

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Foster and Kaplan

Corporations

• Corporations have a “cognitive superstructure”• Have a Chairman and Board of Directors• They plan and they control• Their staff take their responsibilities seriously• Executives are trained/selected for positions• The are not administered by distant committees

(unlike capital markets)• Corporate planning aims to minimise surprise & risk

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Continuity Myopia of Corporations

• Central purpose of the corporation has been production, logistics, selling, and billing.

• Aided by structure – systems of information, decision making, and measurement and control.

• Expected to run smoothly, anticipate problems, and avoid risks

• It is an operational system based on the presumption of rational thought – deterministic. Analytic.

• “If these things are done the results will be expected”

In reality! Systems stumble. Operational Excellence?

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Intel Case Study

• Founded 1968 • Semi conductor memory product new “gale of

destruction” in core memory products industry• 1972 – 1-kilobit 1103 DRAM, largest selling integrated

circuit in world- 90% of $23.4M sales• As first mover – nearly 100% of memory chip market.• Late 70’s Andy Grove, President, says “Intel still stands

for memories; memories mean Intel.”

(DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory)

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Intel 1980’s

• Early ’80s – Large Japanese DRAM produces (Fujitsu, NEC, etc) entered US market with high-volume, high-quality, low-cost products

• Technology still maturing• Intel forced to keep ahead by investment in R&D• DRAM approaching commodity status, prices collapsed

and return to shareholders collapsed• Pure oversupply • July 1984 – price of DRAMs fell 40%, industry• Intel slipped due to its dependence on DRAMs

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Intel: 1968 - 1985

Customers

Existing

New

Incremental Architectural Discontinuous

Nature of Change

Memory

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Computer Hardware7-Year TRS vs Economy

Foster and Kaplan

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Hewlett-Packard Co vs.Computer Hardware

Foster and Kaplan

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Semiconductors: Return on Invested Capital vs Economy

Foster and Kaplan

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Intel’s TRS, 1972-1984

Foster and Kaplan

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The Innovators?

• Jan. 1983 Exit – 17 workers in new applications team (new microprocessors) left because INTEL still obsessed with DRAMs & not supplying resources for new development

• New application was parallel processing• Formed “Sequent Computer Systems”

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Intel’s Soul Searching

Grove’s recollections Fall 1984:

“As the debates raged, we just went on losing money and more money. It was a grim and frustrating year. During that time, we worked hard without a clear notion of how things were ever going to get better. We had lost our bearings. We were wandering in the valley of death.”

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Intel’s Soul Searching

Grove’s recollections 1985 - I:

“Intel equaled memories in all our minds. How could we give up our identity? How could we exist as a company that was not in the memory business? Saying it to Gordon (Gordon Moore was CEO) was one thing; talking it to other people and implementing it was another.”

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Intel’s Soul Searching

Grove’s recollections 1985 – II:

The company had a couple of beliefs that were as strong as religious dogmas. Both of them had to do with the importance of memories as the backbone of our manufacturing and sales activities. – The first belief was that memories were our “technology drivers,”

which meant that we always developed and refined our technologies on our memory products first because they were easier to test.

– The other belief was that the “full-product-line” dogma. According to this (belief), our salesmen needed a full product line to do a good job in front of our customers; if they didn’t have a full product line, the customer would prefer to do business with our competitors who did.

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Crunch Time:

CEO Moore and President grove were standing in Grove’s office…Grove turned to Moore and asked him point-blank: “If we got kicked out and the Board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?”

To which Moore unhesitatingly replied: “He would get us out of memories.”

After a few moments of silence, Grove asked Moore: “Why shouldn’t you and I walk out that door, come back in and do it ourselves?”

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Decision: Kill DRAM Business

• Gradual and incremental reduction in capital investment• Middle managers put up a fight – suggested breakup of

company into two entities (DRAMs & microprocessors)• Compromise – no R&D on new memory products but

R&D on products in “the works”• Mid 1985 – General Manager proposes acquisition of

advanced DRAM “fabrication facility” in Japan• Finally Grove took charge of implementing exit • “People who have no emotional stake in in a decision

can see what needs to be done sooner” e.g. markets

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Intel 1985

Customers

Existing

New

Incremental Architectural Discontinuous

Nature of Change

Micro-ProcessorsMemory

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Intel’s Transformational Innovation

• The microprocessor – designed to power original IBM PC. Sales outpaced DRAM sales

• 1992 – largest semiconductor company in world, even larger than Japanese companies who took over DRAMs

• This performance enhanced health of entire semiconductor industry

• 1996 Danger of cultural lock-in

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SemiconductorsReturn on Invested Capital vs Economy

Foster and Kaplan

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Intel’s TRS: 1972-1998

Foster and Kaplan

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Discontinuity from Internet

• 1996 - Response to challenge, Intel added a fourth strategic objective.

• “Encapsulating all the things that are necessary to mobilize our efforts in connection with the Internet.”– Built several funds that invested some $1 billion in

new non-Intel start-ups– First Q2000 sales of these investments had added

materially to Intel’s reported results

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Intel 1996

Customers

Existing

New

Incremental Architectural Discontinuous

Nature of Change

Micro-Processors

?

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Escaping from Old Ideas

• Keynes: “The difficulty lies not in the ideas, but in escaping from the old ones…”

• Koestler: “We learn by assimilating experience and grouping them in an ordered schemata, into stable patterns of unity in variety. The matrices which pattern our perceptions, thoughts and activities are condensations of learning into habit.”

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How do we manage conflict between exploitation and exploration

Markets

Existing

New

Incremental Architectural Discontinuous

Nature of Innovation

Exploration

Exploitation

Tension