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    William Sims, a naval officer, innovated a new method of mounting guns that allowed for continuous aim and fire on US Navy ships around 1900. His initial proposals were met with no response, so he garnered external support by writing to the US President. He succeeded in changing the Navy's gun mounting through a combination of chance, resistance to change within the organization, and eventual acceptance pushed by higher authority. The document discusses how innovations are resisted due to personal identification with existing concepts and attitudes, and societies' difficulties adapting to technological change.

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    William Sims, a naval officer, innovated a new method of mounting guns that allowed for continuous aim and fire on US Navy ships around 1900. His initial proposals were met with no response, so he garnered external support by writing to the US President. He succeeded in changing the Navy's gun mounting through a combination of chance, resistance to change within the organization, and eventual acceptance pushed by higher authority. The document discusses how innovations are resisted due to personal identification with existing concepts and attitudes, and societies' difficulties adapting to technological change.

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    William Sims, a naval officer, innovated a new method of mounting guns that allowed for continuous aim and fire on US Navy ships around 1900. His initial proposals were met with no response, so he garnered external support by writing to the US President. He succeeded in changing the Navy's gun mounting through a combination of chance, resistance to change within the organization, and eventual acceptance pushed by higher authority. The document discusses how innovations are resisted due to personal identification with existing concepts and attitudes, and societies' difficulties adapting to technological change.

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    Gunfire at Sea

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    William Sims, a naval officer, innovated a new method of mounting guns that allowed for continuous aim and fire on US Navy ships around 1900. His initial proposals were met with no response, so he garnered external support by writing to the US President. He succeeded in changing the Navy's gun mounting through a combination of chance, resistance to change within the organization, and eventual acceptance pushed by higher authority. The document discusses how innovations are resisted due to personal identification with existing concepts and attitudes, and societies' difficulties adapting to technological change.

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    Gunfire at Sea: A Case Study of Innovation

    American Society going through technological change


    US Navy 1900-1902
    Innovation: Gun Mounted -> Continuous Aim Firing
    Why Navy?
    - Isolated from random influence
    - Study of a concrete, durable situation
    William Sims The innovator
    His steps - No Response
    - Getting attention and rebuttal
    - External Support (Wrote to US President)
    He succeeded by chance
    There were reluctant to change
    How to change the society?
    - Resistance
    - Identification
    o Concept (Old design)
    o Convention (Way of life)
    o Attitude (act of revolt)
    - Acceptance (Through agreement or higher authority push)
    People with entrepreneurial ideas have rebellious spirit.
    Source of conflict
    - Identification (satisfaction that prevented from thinking the defects)
    - Personal identification with a concept, attitude (e.g. Bessemer process)
    US still not adaptive society

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