{"id":8955,"date":"2014-11-06T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T10:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.syspro.com\/blog\/what-corn-tells-us-about-how-innovation-spreads-through-an-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:17:34","slug":"what-corn-tells-us-about-how-innovation-spreads-through-an-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eu.syspro.com\/blog\/supply-chain-management-and-erp\/what-corn-tells-us-about-how-innovation-spreads-through-an-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"What Corn Tells Us About How Innovation Spreads Through an Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Farming corn (or maize) seems simple, but it isn\u2019t, and it is the business of farming corn that is so instructive to anyone interested in the spread of innovation.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Why should I care about the spread of innovation?<\/h2>\n<p>Like it or not, we live in a time where every aspect of your business is impacted by innovations. Adopting innovations ahead of your competitors gives you an advantage until they catch up. And with so many innovations available, that gives you plenty of opportunities.<\/p>\n<h2><!--more--><\/h2>\n<h2>Corn and the diffusion of innovation<\/h2>\n<p>The reason corn is so closely linked to innovation is because it was the subject of a study by Bryce Ryan and Neal Gross that was popularized in Everett Rogers\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diffusion_of_innovations\">Diffusion of Innovation<\/a>s (1962).<\/p>\n<p>Ryan and Gross looked at how communities in the US state of Iowa adopted a new form of self-pollinating hybrid corn seed that increased yields and made it easier to harvest with machinery. The diffusion of this innovation followed a bell curve and Rogers neatly categorized the different adopters as innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards.<\/p>\n<p>The main conclusion of the study was that innovation is fundamentally diffused through social channels by individuals who had already adopted an innovation and then influenced others to follow their lead.<\/p>\n<h2>Diffusion of technology innovation<\/h2>\n<p>The problem with the work of Ryan, Gross, and Rogers in Iowa is that it looks at an innovation that was virtually guaranteed to succeed. It improved yields by 20%; it made mechanized harvesting more efficient; and it wasn\u2019t competing with a host of other innovations.<\/p>\n<p>This concept was further explored by Geoffrey Moore in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crossing-Chasm-3rd-Disruptive-Mainstream\/dp\/0062292986\/\">Crossing the Chasm<\/a>, a work that has become a mainstay of business schools focusing on IT company success.\u00a0 Today technology investment is a challenge as well as an opportunity for all companies, in all aspects of their business, \u00a0\u00a0and as a result, the lessons of investment risk have a broader impact.<\/p>\n<p>With technology, there are a lot of competing innovators, of which many will fail and wipe out any gains from your technology investment \u2013 that is a risk for innovators and early adopters.\u00a0 The size of the investment required also tends to reduce with time. Innovators have to create new tools and to do this, not only take on an outsized risk of failure, but also need to invest more upfront. By the time the early majority is buying technology, they are buying turn-key solutions that do most of what they need to catch up with innovators, at a fraction of the cost, and risk of failure.<\/p>\n<p>However, the money invested in technology by laggards is a sunk cost\u2014they aren\u2019t reaping the benefits gained by a competitive advantage but rather making investments in just keeping up.<\/p>\n<h2>Planning for innovation<\/h2>\n<p>The purpose of this post isn\u2019t to tell you how to invest in technological innovation, that is something that depends entirely on your business and competition, but rather to give you a framework for thinking about innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The innovators and early adopters reap the returns of competitive advantage for longer, but at a greater risk. The early majority, late majority and laggards don\u2019t face nearly the risk, but they also reap progressively lower rewards from their technology investments.<\/p>\n<p>Some businesses may generally always be early adopters or laggards, but businesses don\u2019t need to always invest the same way. Managers should think about where they want to be on the innovation spectrum when they want to make specific investments that promise outsized rewards for bigger risks; or where and when the company as a whole should fit on the spectrum of innovators to laggards; and create an adaptable response to innovation in order to effectively balance risk and reward in each situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farming corn (or maize) seems simple, but it isn\u2019t, and it is the business of farming corn that is so instructive to anyone interested in the spread of innovation. Why should I care about the spread of innovation? 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