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The CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions
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The CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions

by Jessica Keyes
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 53m
English
Auerbach Publications
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26 • e CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions
The S-Curve and Innovation Management
e S-curve, a quantitative trend-extrapolation technique used in fore-
casting, has long been used in the technology industry. Many argue that
this analysis is actually more useful to see where you’ve been rather than
where you should go (Spencer 2005). e S-curve is most oen used to
compare two competitive products in two dimensions: usually time and
performance, as shown in Figure1.3.
An excellent example of an S-curve can be found in Alexander (2001), in
his discussion of the product innovation cycle. He discusses the S-curve of
the ubiquitous auto
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ISBN: 9781482249958