{"id":47,"date":"2005-04-07T23:31:39","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T05:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/47"},"modified":"2005-04-07T23:31:39","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T05:31:39","slug":"seeing-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/47","title":{"rendered":"Seeing What’s Next"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read \u201cSeeing What\u2019s Next\u201d by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth. (LOC<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna have to come back to this one a few times, and maybe check out the authors’ other books.<\/p>\n

This book covered a serious hole in my informal (and my short formal) economic education. As absolutely important as innovation is in the grand economic scheme, I hadn\u2019t yet read anyone trying to put a formal framework around it. Of course, there\u2019s always going to be that ineffable core in the process that gives us a reason to call it \u2018innovation\u2019 rather than \u2018just what one would expect\u2019, but there are meaningful things to be said about how a innovation is accepted into a market or markets, and ways to predict who will take greatest advantage of the innovation in a business sense. That\u2019s what this book addresses, and from my first read through it, it seems like the theories presented and their applications have some solidity.<\/p>\n

The fact that my economic education is rather limited didn\u2019t seem to be much of a hindrance to my reading this book; the ideas are presented in a way that doesn\u2019t require much there. I\u2019m sure the combination of these ideas with a more complete understanding of economics would be more powerful.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t yet tried to take their theories and apply them to something on my own, and I don\u2019t necessarily feel like that\u2019s going to be easy without their extensive experience and\/or the benefit of hindsight. And of course, a theory isn\u2019t much of a theory if it can\u2019t work beyond those boundaries. But it\u2019s far too early to tell whether there\u2019s a lack in the book or in me that\u2019s at the heart of my uncertainty there.<\/p>\n

In any case, I think this is a great read in that I gained a bit of a foothold in understanding some of the most important and complex economic events out there, not to mention a couple concrete ideas about where to place some of my intellectual effort in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read \u201cSeeing What\u2019s Next\u201d by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth. (LOC, Amazon) I\u2019m gonna have to come back to this one a few times, and maybe check out the authors’ other books. This book covered a serious hole in my informal (and my short formal) economic education. As absolutely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}