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Jul 15, 2016 · Unfortunately, as time marches on the subtleties of what actually happened to Eastman Kodak are being forgotten, leading executives to draw the wrong conclusions from its struggles.
Nov 6, 2021 · Why did Kodak fail and what can you learn from its demise? Kodak failed to understand that its strategy of banking on traditional film cameras (which was effective at one point) was now depriving the company of success.
Jan 18, 2012 · For more than another decade, a series of new Kodak CEOs would bemoan his predecessor’s failure to transform the organization to digital, declare his own intention to do so, and proceed to...
Mar 14, 2012 · Thousands of words have been written recently seeking to explain Kodak's failure. The company, all agree, was slow to adapt to digital, its executives suffered from a mentality of “perfect products”, its venture-capital arm never made big enough bets to create breakthroughs, and its leadership lacked vision and consistency.
Nov 23, 2020 · Why could Kodak never become a major player in the evolving industry? Kodak’s management failed to understand the disruption and ended up becoming a victim to the aftershocks of a disruptive change. Kodak makes a great case for cognitive biases that led the management to take irrational decisions.
May 20, 2016 · The Real Lessons From Kodak’s Decline. Eastman Kodak is often mischaracterized as a company whose managers didn’t recognize soon enough that digital technology would decimate its traditional business. However, what really happened at Kodak is much more complicated — and instructive.
Dec 14, 2022 · Why Did Kodak Fail? A lot has been said about Kodak’s failure to reform itself. The usual story describes a mummified company stuck in the analog era and incapable of adapting to the digital...
May 2, 2012 · Why? Answer: The organization overflowed with complacency. I saw it, maybe in the late 1980s. Kodak was failing to keep up even before the digital revolution when Fuji started doing a...
Jan 20, 2012 · The cause of its failure, according to the parade of management experts who lined up this week to deliver their verdict: recent generations of Kodak manager were too wedded to the profits from...
Feb 1, 2012 · Kodak failed to build a strategy based on customer needs because it was afraid to cannibalize its existing business, suggests Wharton marketing professor George S. Day, co-director of Wharton’s ...
