RR Donnelley & Sons: The Digital Division I. Traditional vs. On-Demand Digital Printing How do the characteristics of Donnelley’s traditional printing business compare with the characteristics of on-demand digital printing? R.R. Donnelley and Sons traditional printing business pricing varied depending on the number of pages in the print job. The prices per page decreased as the number of pages increased. The traditional print business consisted of high fixed costs and low variable costs
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Disruptive technology is any new thing‚ or innovative that helps produces a fresh market‚ causing disruption in an existing market. Disruptive technology is something that shakes up the current situation or trend in the industry. Disruptive technology can cause a shift of leadership in the industry. An example of disruptive technology would be the Google Glass. With the Google Glass‚ consumers were able to communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands. The principles behind disruptive
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the concept of disruptive technologies. In his book Christensen divides technology into two groups‚ sustaining and disruptive. Sustaining a technology requires continuous and incremental improvements to an already established technology. Disruptive technology lacks refinement. This technology often has performance problems because firstly it appeals to a limited audience‚ secondly it is new and lastly it may not have a proven practical application. Therefore‚ a disruptive technology is a low performance
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R.R. Donnelley & Sons The Digital Division Presented by James Grasty Company & Background • • • • Founded in 1864 printing catalogs for Montgomery Ward‚ by 95’ they were the largest commercial printer with 41k employees in 22 countries Privately held chicago based company for almost a century until they went public in 1956 Generated 60% of its revenues from; directories‚ catalogs and magazines Major customers included; telephone companies‚ retail and direct mail‚ and publishers of books‚ magazines
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Disruptive Technologies and Competitive Forces A disruptive product‚ service or technology is an innovation which creates a new marketplace and a new value web. It eventually goes on to “disrupt” an existing market environment and value web. Portable tablet computers from Apple have come and gone before‚ such as Apple’s “Newton” in the 1990s which was eventually discontinued in 1998 following poor sales. The iPad‚ launched in 2010‚ looks like it will be different. It is a beautifully designed product
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McKinsey Global Institute May 2013 Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life‚ business‚ and the global economy The McKinsey Global Institute The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI)‚ the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company‚ was established in 1990 to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving global economy. Our goal is to provide leaders in the commercial‚ public‚ and social sectors with the facts and insights on which to base management and policy
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Disruptive Technology Abstract The objective of this project is to explain the emergence of disruptive technology in the IT industry that will enable and help the organizations growth in a cost effective manner. One of the hottest topics in today’s IT corridors is the uses and benefits of virtualization technologies. IT companies all over the globe are executing virtualization for a diversity of business requirements‚ driven by prospects to progress server flexibility and decrease operational
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Living Case Study As stated by Clayton Christensen‚ disruptive innovation enhances the original business model of a product or organization‚ and changes it; where a product use to only be accessible to a select group of people‚ it is now presented in a much simpler way and accessible to a larger and broader population. Christensen states that the product or organization “takes root” as a simple application‚ and then is disrupted by something. Co-owner Laura Patrick was smart in that she was the
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3M: Profile of an Innovating Company 1 Case 1 Richard Ivey School of Business — The University of Western Ontario WAVERIDER COMMUNICATIONS‚ INC.: THE WIRELESS LAST MILE 21 Case 21 Harvard Business School POM Cases Disruptive Technology a Heartbeat Away: Ecton‚ Inc. 35 Case 35 Richard Ivey School of Business — The University of Western Ontario ACER GROUP’S R&D STRATEGY − THE CHINA DECISION 54 Case 54 Harvard Business School POM Cases Hewlett−Packard:
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Disruptive technologies are not always disruptive to customers‚ and often take a long time before they are significantly disruptive to established companies. They are often difficult to recognize. Indeed‚ as Christensen points out and studies have shown‚ it is often entirely rational for incumbent companies to ignore disruptive innovations‚ since they compare so badly with existing technologies or products‚ and the deceptively small market available for a disruptive innovation is often very small
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