Kevin Kelly’s Blog

Change is inevitable, as many companies have found to their peril. The mentality must be to change while you are ahead, or risk losing your position - as was shown in the IT sector some years back. 

1984 Total US PC’s shipped 7.8bn units  –  2004 56bn units 

1984 Market share

Commodore 27%  IBM 20.1%  Apple 14.6%  Tandy 7.5%  Atari 6.8% 

2004 Market Share

Dell 33.1%  HP 19.5%  Gateway 5.3%  IBM 4.7%  Apple 3.5%

“At times of crisis you have to change. And in order to keep on succeeding, you need to change even without crisis.”Jong-Yong Yun
Chief Executive, Samsung Electronics.