Daniel Wissa's .NET Journey - Innovation & Creativity: Where did you go?

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Innovation & Creativity: Where did you go?

Right so it seems the hot topic of today is TradeMe's launch of their Job listing service... This actually had me start thinking about the following. What happened to innovation? It seems to me that a lot of companies in NZ and world wide see others doing something and then going, that looks like a cool thing to do we should do that too... and then they do and we end up with multiple offerings of very very similar services, so whats the point there? Maybe there's something I don't get, but unless there is a significant difference I just dont see the point.

Here are some examples in different areas.

Maps: Wises, Zoomin and now Yellow Pages too
Auctions: Trademe,Zillion and 2TradeIt
Jobs: Seek, Job Stuff and now TradeMe

And some global Examples

Google, Windows Live Search
iPod, Zune...etc

I'm not denying that new market entrants can help bring innovations on existing products/services but I really think that companies should invest in new ideas and new offerings rather than go outside what they do best to offer services already offered by others.

But who knows, maybe I got it all wrong!!

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:48:27 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

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Saturday, August 19, 2006 6:14:11 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

I think the reason for the copy cat services, are two fold.

1. There is profit, so the second company want's a slice. Even by the process of adding compition, the cost comes down. This reducing the profit for a third entrences. Well in theory...

2. The service is concidered "core" or a "fundamental" service, thus while there may be no money, by not providing the service you lose secondary services that do have profit, or percieved market mind share.

In the end of the day, somebody has money, and feel that spending it chasing the leader is a good way to make more. Sometimes the leader has made bad choices, that are only seen in hindsight, sometimes this becomes there downfall.

Oh really the main reason, new idea involve risk, and unknowns, and a large portion of busness is risk adverise.

Simeon

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About

Daniel Wissa is Software Developer living in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Starting his journey in IT at a very young age, Daniel has already accomplished a number of things.

In his second year as a Computer Science student at the University of Canterbury, Daniel was the first person to become a Microsoft Student Ambassador at the University. Following on from his work as a Microsoft Student Ambassador at Canterbury, Daniel became part of a global Student Advisory Board a team a of students from all around the world that helped bring the current version of theSpoke.

In 2005, Daniel completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Information Systems and Technology while still only 20 years of age. 2005 was also the year when he started his blog to share his thoughts about technology and related topics. Daniel believes that blogging is a powerful way of sharing opinion and communicating ideas to people across the globe.

Daniel has always been interested in Microsoft technologies since being at university and in 2006 he completed the Microsoft Certified Application Developer .NET certification. Taking his interest in Microsoft stuff even further, he currently co-leads the Christchurch .NET usergroup.