60-80% failure rate seems insurmountable. I would have said 50% would have been the highest tolerance for a new technology to fail, 50-50. If you are expecting 60-80% failure you had better make a friggin BOATLOAD of cash with the winners, since those 2 to 4 Winners have to cover their own cost PLUS the cost of the 6-8 losers for every 10 products.
wow On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > Came across a section that I thought was pertinent to all the speculation > on Android tablets and whether or not Chrome OS will ever be employed: > > Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search products and user > experience, believes that the > company’s future success hinges on innovation. She encourages risk-taking > and readily acknowl- > edges that 60–80% of the company’s new products will fail. However, > creating an organizational > culture that embraces failure also helps produce the new product > introductions that should sustain > the company’s future sales growth > (Garrison, Ray H.. Managerial Accounting, 13th Edition. McGraw-Hill Higher > Education/CourseSmart, 02/13/2009. 520) > > > So I guess to Google it's to be expected for things like Wave to utterly > flop. I guess Google is the true antithesis to Apple; Apple is elegant, all > products are seamlessly integrated, and control of the product line is about > as central as you can get where Google's products are utilitarian, hardware > is farmed out to any manufacturer that is interested (and software is freely > altered and adapted), and the strategy seems to be let the engineers roam > free and see what of the things they come up with stick. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
