Claims / C-41C6ZG8K30
Conjecture
A dominant design reprices the two kinds of knowledge at a stroke, and that is what sets up the next overthrow. Once a design is accepted, the value of new architectural knowledge about different ways of integrating components falls sharply and the value of component knowledge rises, because competition moves to refining particular components. Part I's phrase for the organisational consequence is the useful one: companies switch from global to local search. Engineering teams no longer spend energy on cross-component integration and are free to improve their own part, which makes progress fast and the work scalable to very large teams in a way the experimental period never was. Henderson and Clark's automobile case: once gasoline won, competitive pressure pushed everyone to learn more about gasoline engines and refinement of steam and electric became unattractive.
Evidence 1 passage
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Companies switch from global to local search. As most engineering and innovation teams no longer need to devote significant energy to cross-component integration or collaboration they are free to focus their efforts on improving their specific component. Consequently, companies a
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