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The diffusion of netbooks exhibits many interesting traits of radical and disruptive innovation: the change in technical tradeoffs and product architecture (though not of core technology), the downsizing in performance (good enough for a new market), the inertia shown by incumbents.

An article on the broadcasting vs. streaming revolution. Interesting to notice that established cable TV operators are quite behind. Conversely, a young company like Netflix, that started by challenging Blockbuster in DVD rentals with an innovative business model, is a nimble player with interesting results. A clear example of organisational inertia

A nice comparison history between Kodak and Fuji. Aside from issues associated to culture and organizational inertia, it seems that the basic error was related to identifying core competencies, witih Kodak focusing on "imaging" (but then messing up with execution) and Fuji on chemicals.