Don Tapscott And Anthony D. Williams

Firms often resist or ignore customer innovations. It took car manufacturers more than a decade to "invent" the pickup truck, after American farmers had spent years ripping the backseats out of their vehicles to make room for their goods and tools. Even when customer innovations look promising, most companies' internal processes have been too rigidly adapted to the manufacturer-centric paradigm to make use of them.

Don Tapscott and Andrew D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Chapter 4 (Customers as Co-innovators)


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