[rollei_list] Re: OT: Kodak's Original Digital Camera
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 00:58:07 -0700
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From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:07 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Kodak's Original Digital
Camera
Competent business people do not think in these terms.
Film versus
digital imaging was not an either/or proposition then and
still is not
now, as Kodak should have well understood. Then there's
the very basic
core concept that Kodak was/is an imaging company, not a
film company,
a lesson now being learned the hard way. And still another
factor for
public companies... shareholder value is largely a
function of growth
and not of profit.
I think it is safe to say that from about the mid-90s
through about
the mid-2000s, Kodak was probably one of the worst managed
companies
in the S&P 500...
Eric Goldstein
A classic case, related by Rudolf Kingslake, is the
rejection of the Xerox process by Kodak because, in the
words of Kenneth Mees, "we are a chemical company and this
is not a chemical process." The inventors of xerography
eventually took it the Haloid Company, a small rival of
Kodak and a company which specialized in document copying
processes, where it was accepted and developed, the company
eventually becoming Xerox.
Kodak also had a bad reputation among its dealers
because of practices which essentially cut off smaller
stores. I think Agfa did them one better by simply never
promoting their stuff (at least in the US).
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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