Suppose your top quartile of employees left to start a new company, harnessing the Cheap Revolution.
The way to think about the Cheap Revolution is simple, yet hard to do.
Winners and losers in the Cheap Revolution are being sorted out with ferocious speed.
They are the employees of companies that sell overpriced products and services in a Cheap Revolution world.
The answer depends on how quickly the EMCs can realign themselves to the demands of the Cheap Revolution.
Affordable technology combined with global pools of smart labor form a Cheap Revolution.
Answer: They are key actors in what I am calling the Cheap Revolution.
They are the employees of companies that sell suddenly and vastly overpriced products and services in a Cheap Revolution world.
The Cheap Revolution (a buzz phrase coined by forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard in a column in April 2003) has already claimed significant casualties.
To brace for the Cheap Revolution, Microsoft et al. will be forced to give up the fat profit margins they have enjoyed for years.
The Cheap Revolution is good for China and India as well as newer, clever companies in the West, such as Google, Skype and Craigslist.
Engineers are fleeing BEA, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun to push the Cheap Revolution at no-name shops in obscure office parks in San Jose, San Mateo and Redwood City.
It's human nature to imagine that your business will evolve in predictable ways--right up to the moment when the Cheap Revolution rears up to smack you.
Coleman is one of dozens of new barbarians plotting the Cheap Revolution, the wholesale shift by corporate customers and techmakers to cheap chips and open-source (often free) software such as Linux.
Low Disruption means leveraging the Cheap Revolution for all it's worth to introduce products and services that are stunningly cheap yet make money because their cost basis is so low.
The Cheap Revolution may help explain why much of old-line tech has been dormant since the crash that began in early 2000: Customers are spending, but they spend in new places and get far more for their money.
Cool as the iPhone is--I'm buying one this weekend--the price couldn't be sustained in the world of the cheap revolution, where Moore's Law drives the cost down and buyers in China and India set the price.
The cheap revolution is a first-order effect of Moore's Law. (Moore's Law predicts the transistor density on silicon chips will double every 18 to 24 months.) For years if you said "Moore's Law, " people presumed you were describing a future of ever more powerful computers.
Thanks to the social media revolution and the advent of cheap video technology the playing field is leveling between big huge corporations and small business owners.
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Look at how cheap computers and Web connections have launched a revolution in stock-trading prices.
Another formidable competitor is Swatch Group, better known for the cheap plastic watches that helped save Switzerland when the quartz revolution looked as if it would relocate the entire watch industry to the Far East.
And while there was a strong abolitionist movement in England, it was the Industrial Revolution, and its mechanization that did away with the need for vast amounts of cheap labor in the colonies, that eventually turned England against the slave trade.
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Luckily, the digital revolution that has made the kind of technology we used to see in Get Smart both cheap and discreet.
But just as the industrial revolution was built on coal, the post-second-world-war economy was built on cheap oil.
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