Defending Infrastructures…

“The last phase is defending infrastructures. This was my hardest phase to understand. Basically, a company begins facing problems complacency, redevelopment, and failure. Andy Grove brings up his 3 keys for an aging industry. First, ignore new challenges. This means to minimize the threats from “cross-industry” innovations. Next, he says to resist change. Change is merely prolonging the inevitable. Resistance takes many forms like enlisting government agencies to adjust public policy. In other words, Andy was saying to protect the current media infrastructures. His last point was radical reforms. These are typically to late, but they can help your company keep its head above water a little longer.”

My impression is that it’s not just media companies that struggle like this. I think that resistance to change… the whole process is actually something that happens to alot of companies in many fields. It was captured here very effectively, but I would argue that a resistance to change will lead to the downfall of any company or anything. Adaptability is by far the most necessary trait for an organisms survival, living or organizational. I thought this was good article.