今天晚上全家坐在院子里开始讲故事。
姥爷先讲：从前有个人养了一头小猪，小猪常常晚上叫唤，吵得主人睡不好觉。主人决定把小猪送到一天个很远的地方。第二天小猪自己跑回来了。主人就把小猪的眼睛蒙上，又把小猪带到一个更远的地方。后来，主人给老婆打电话，“我不认识回家的路了，怎么办？”，他老婆说“小猪认识回家的路，你让它带你回家吧“。
亮亮讲”有只小老鼠，被monster吃了，老鼠妈妈回来了，又被monster吃了，爸爸回来了，也被吃了。“
妈妈讲了汤姆去海滩的故事。
爸爸讲了乌鸦吃肉唱歌，肉被小狐狸吃了。
姥姥讲大灰狼和小羊，亮亮害怕了。
2009年8月2日星期日
Book reading: The Innovator's Dilemma
I started reading a new (really old) book: The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, by Clayton M. Christensen. I was attracted by the book because I have been wondering why big companies cannot defeat small startups.
I only finished the first chapter, the topic of the book is indeed very interesting, and findings are very inspiring. I have no doubt it is a great book to read, especially like us who are in this hi-tech industry. The main argument of the book is that, well-managed big companies can make great success on sustaining technologies: new technologies improving the performance of established products. However, big companies have trouble to catch disruptive technologies: innovations that result in worse product performance in near-term, but typically cheaper, simpler, smaller and more convenient to use. I very much agree the author's point. However, I am slightly disagree that the products made from disruptive technologies are cheaper. Usually, I saw new products radically designed have high price initially, and high margin. For instance, Apple's iPod, iPhone, Amazon's kindle, large-volume SSD hard drives, etc. Typically these products have high profit margin, but smaller market volume initially. And later when more companies invest on these products and competition kicks in, the price drops and products get better.
I only finished the first chapter, the topic of the book is indeed very interesting, and findings are very inspiring. I have no doubt it is a great book to read, especially like us who are in this hi-tech industry. The main argument of the book is that, well-managed big companies can make great success on sustaining technologies: new technologies improving the performance of established products. However, big companies have trouble to catch disruptive technologies: innovations that result in worse product performance in near-term, but typically cheaper, simpler, smaller and more convenient to use. I very much agree the author's point. However, I am slightly disagree that the products made from disruptive technologies are cheaper. Usually, I saw new products radically designed have high price initially, and high margin. For instance, Apple's iPod, iPhone, Amazon's kindle, large-volume SSD hard drives, etc. Typically these products have high profit margin, but smaller market volume initially. And later when more companies invest on these products and competition kicks in, the price drops and products get better.
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