This Week's Must-Reads | Jan. 16, 2025

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Danny Nathan
January 16, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Here’s what we covered in Sunday’s edition…

In spite of all of our discussion about, and advocacy for, innovation in business — it’s easy to get caught in the trap of “Innovation is hard.” It requires commitment, buy-in from leadership, and often and entirely different organizational structure from what exists today. So if innovation is hard…why both?

Our recent edition dives into the power of disruptive innovation to guide a global organization through an industry-wide crisis, emerging victorious on the other side. We also look at how a lack of innovation can destroy a company in a matter of years.

Here’s what you’ll find:

  • This Week’s Article: Can an Industry in Crisis Innovate to Success & Survival?

  • 3 Must Reads: Dive into the history of Kodak vs. Fujifilm and explore how Fujifilm leveraged expertise in chemical processing to expand into cosmetics and the digital imaging era.

Why Kodak Died and Fujifilm Thrived: A Tale of Two Film Companies

The Kodak moment is gone, but today Fujifilm thrives after a massive reorganization. Here is a detailed analysis based on firsthand accounts from top

petapixel.com/why-kodak-died-and-fujifilm-thrived-a-tale-of-two-film-companies

Fujifilm Finds New Life in Cosmetics

Fujifilm has launched a new line of cosmetics developed using the company’s film-related technologies. Cosmetics and film may seem like unrelated industries, but Fujifilm found a way to tap into a surprising synergy between them.

www.nippon.com/en/features/c00511

Kaizen — A Resource Guide | Lean Enterprise Institute

Adopt the Kaizen philosophy of continuous improvement. Achieve success by reducing waste and increasing efficiency.

www.lean.org/lexicon-terms/kaizen/#:~:text=Kaizen%20is%20a%20Japanese%20word,to%20significant%20long%2Dterm%20benefits.

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