How Can You Make Sense

A Lot Has Been Written About The Internet Bust. From My Point Of View, It's Quite Clear The Internet Isn't A Category; The Internet Is A Technological Infrastructure That Can Be Deployed To Facilitate A Disruptive Business Model Or A Sustaining Business Model.

If You Ask The Average Guy On The Street To Name Five Companies That Have Truly Transformed Themselves Over The Few Decades, Hewlett-packard Would Be On Everybody's List. You'd Also Put On This List Ge And Johnson & Johnson.

At The Beginning Of Almost Every Industry, The Available Products And Services Are So Expensive To Own And Complicated To Use That Only People With A Lot Of Money And A Lot Of Skill Have Access To Them. A Disruptive Technology Is An Innovation That Simplifies The Product And Makes It So Affordable That A Whole New Population Of People Can Now Have One And Use It At The Beginning For Simple Applications, And Then It Improves To The Point That It Makes The Old Technology Obsolete.

It's Like In Biological Evolution: The Population Will Evolve, Even Though Individuals Can't. The Same Thing Happens In The Corporate World: The Population Of Business Units Within Corporations Evolves, Even Though Individual Business Units Can't. That's Because The Capabilities Of Business Units Reside In Their Processes And Their Values, And By Their Very Nature, Processes And Values Are Inflexible And Meant Not To Change.

I've Concluded That The Metric By Which God Will Assess My Life Isn't Dollars But The Individual People Whose Lives I've Touched.