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IBM's Foolishness
In the 1970s, a team of engineers at IBM proposed developing a personal computer for individual use. However, the company's executives dismissed the idea, believing that there was no significant market for com
I'll suggest you to read the book Innovator's dilemma. It talks a great deal about why giant companies fails to achieve Innovation where smaller ones grabs the opportunity
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