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...company's third core business, commercial printing, seems promising, even though it's losing money right now. But here Kodak will have to battle a giant called Xerox. That does not mean the technology is anything like that of office photocopying. Kodak's machines can be 40 ft. long and cost from $11,000 to $5.5 million. Its pricey Versamark, for example, produces color prints in huge volume--at a rate of 1,000 ft. per minute. The magic: digital technology makes it possible to economically print custom copies of anything at almost any volume--books, flyers, bills...
...while conducting their research, and they illustrate each point of their plan--from shaping a management team to crafting a strategic agenda to engineering corporate culture--with real-life examples of success and failure. To explain the importance of preparation before Day One, for instance, Neff and Citrin cite Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, who, realizing she knew relatively little about finance, enlisted the director of financial analysis to give her a crash course in "Balance Sheet 101." To underscore the value of communication, they reveal that Gap CEO Paul Pressler kept a weblog as he visited stores around the country...
...certainly wasn't alone in this. Many of my contemporaries at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory in the '70s and '80s can tell similar stories. My point is not to boast about our exploits but to point out that most of what passes for new at any given time has in fact been around for quite a while. Or, to steal a line from the science-fiction writer William Gibson, "The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed...
...ubiquitous computer mouse also took a poky path to market. The first model was built in 1964 by Doug Engelbart and William English, of the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. By the early 1970s, many of us at Xerox PARC had become point-and-click fans, using state-of-the-art Alto computers. But beyond that little world, few people were aware of the device until Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple Macintosh in 1984. It took Microsoft's Windows 95 to take the mouse mainstream--some 30 years after its invention...
...industry's efforts to block the new technology in the courts aren't going well. Last month a Federal Court of Appeals declared Grokster and Morpheus as legal as a VCR or a Xerox copy machine, whose legitimate copying uses outweigh illegitimate ones. The movie industry is furious. "These are folks who hide behind a curtain of plausible deniability, like they don't know what's being traded on their networks," says Dan Glickman, a Clinton Cabinet member and former Democratic Congressman who took over the helm of the MPAA after Valenti retired...