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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?”

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?”.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. Market expansion was what Apple needed, not a sizable chunk of the PC market. He focused on a few target products and services and he did them well.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The question is “Why?”

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8 innovative business models to navigate the digital era

hackerearth

What appeared to be yet another mp3 player in the market had a solid business model behind it in the form of itunes. An innovative business model has the potential to radically disrupt a market and give your business the competitive edge. By leveraging the Internet boom, it disrupted the industry put Blockbuster out of business.