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"they are up against the Innovator's Dilemma. If you haven't read that book by Clay Christensen, you really should. As it applies in this instance, the dilemma is that the established organizations can only approach innovation on the basis of protecting their current way of operating. The future of public radio may not be podcasting, but it will certainly be based on much lower-cost methods of producing and distributing most programs, and as incumbents in the industry, the WGBHs of the world are unable to cannibalize their own operations to the extent they must to survive."
...and reinforcing the idea of innovation from the outside, 250 mpg autos...
So far, DaimlerChrysler AG is the only company that has committed to building its own plug-in hybrids, quietly pledging to make up to 40 vans for U.S. companies. But Toyota Motor Corp. officials who initially frowned on people altering their cars now say they may be able to learn from them.
"They're like the hot rodders of yesterday who did everything to soup up their cars. It was all about horsepower and bling-bling, lots of chrome and accessories," said Cindy Knight, a Toyota spokeswoman. "Maybe the hot rodders of tomorrow are the people who want to get in there and see what they can do about increasing fuel economy."
But these days pretty much every serious, original TV movie about history or current events is produced by HBO. PBS, on the other hand, airs...Antiques Roadshow. And the corporate underwriting spots on PBS look to me a lot more like advertisements than anything I see on HBO.
In fact, it seems to me that as a creator of programming, it's HBO that has fulfilled that original public TV dream–it costs $12 or $15 a month to subscribe, but it has become America's great advertising-free oasis of smart, enlightened, innovative, risk-taking television.
The broad(?)casters are learning. Are the automakers? Sure, the latter has the legacy of their heavy infrastructure, but someday soon, that excuse won't fly any more.
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