Week 3: Sources of Innovation - Discussion

Innovation Life Cycle (graded)

Describe the innovation life cycle proposed by Abernathy and Utterback (see page 232 of the
text). Does the model provide a useful tool to guide and manage the innovation process? Do
you see any weak points in the model?

Responses

Responses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the
response is posted.
Response Author Date/Time

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 Sunday -
Innovation Professor Chao-Hrenek 3/16/2013 9:58:18 PM
Life Cycle

Hello All: Welcome to WK 3 discussions! Please finish reading the chapter 5, then
let's start the week by discussing - Does the innovation life cycle model describe the
evolution of the Internet?

Dr. Chao-Hrenek

RE:
Sunday -
3/17/2013 11:14:02 AM
Innovation Libra Smith
Life Cycle
I believe it does. For instance Facebook has evolved to communicated with
any and everyone all over the nation and is a huge force behind
communication between people. Because people start to gravitate to a
particular communications means, the technology has to be adjusted in order
to keep up with what people are doing and demanding. People will make
suggestions on "if my phone could do this, my pc could do that" then those
who can manipulate technology will work to provide the demand people are
requesting. Both go hand in hand.

RE:
Sunday -
3/17/2013 9:52:38 PM
Innovation Michael Gross
Life Cycle
Facebook is a great example of the evolution of the internet. This
social networking channel gave way to a whole new meaning of
communication, advertising, promoting, and just getting a message
across. The demand for technology to be adjusted to "keep up with
the Jones" is extremely important. Another example of this would be
Twitter and Instagram. These two social networking platforms are a
direct example and result of the innovation life cycle and evolution
of the internet.

RE:
Sunday -
3/18/2013 6:01:43 PM
Innovation Libra Smith
Life Cycle
Michael, very true.... Instagram and Twitter is another hot
one. Everyone uses those means to promote, advertise,

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