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jbcohen · 01-21-2011, 10:18 AM

I am thinking of examples where older companies have noticed the Game Change and moved on the change and survived the shift in technology. The one such shift that comes to mind is AT&T. The company has been through two Game Changers in the corporate history. The first came with the government's deregulation of the phone industry and broke up "ma bell" into many different "baby bells". AT&T managed to survive; and then more rectly with the introduction of the cell and smart phones when the company saw the potential of this new technology to change the business as a whole. As a consequence the company survived.

Does anyone remember Crown Books? They were a victim of the last Game Change in book selling.

I can see further Game Changers coming up in TV and Radio. There is an emergining technology that will allow people to watch their entire diet of TV via the internet as well as geting all of their radio stations via the internet rather than the traditional radio waves. Will the existing stations and comapnies adapt to the new technology, some are moving in that direction already but wehter they will survive is anyones guess.

01-21-2011, 10:18 AM	#4
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	I am thinking of examples where older companies have noticed the Game Change and moved on the change and survived the shift in technology. The one such shift that comes to mind is AT&T. The company has been through two Game Changers in the corporate history. The first came with the government's deregulation of the phone industry and broke up "ma bell" into many different "baby bells". AT&T managed to survive; and then more rectly with the introduction of the cell and smart phones when the company saw the potential of this new technology to change the business as a whole. As a consequence the company survived. Does anyone remember Crown Books? They were a victim of the last Game Change in book selling. I can see further Game Changers coming up in TV and Radio. There is an emergining technology that will allow people to watch their entire diet of TV via the internet as well as geting all of their radio stations via the internet rather than the traditional radio waves. Will the existing stations and comapnies adapt to the new technology, some are moving in that direction already but wehter they will survive is anyones guess.