Professor Elam

Friday Jan 6, 2011

On the marketpersepective post I commented on Kodak. I wondered what it was that they would save in a Chapter 11 which is reorganization. Chapter 7 is We Give Up, Call the Aucitioneers. 

I don't see that EK has anything left to do. I am guessing that most of their patents all have to do with processing film. Oddly EK invented the digital camera but then the Swiss watch makers invented the digital watch as well, only to sell it to the Japanese. 

What would ED sell, certainly not photo prints, or cameras, or computer printers. 

But then it hit me, what if the workers at EK had been members of the United Auto Workers?  Here is the real management failure, had they all signed on to the UAW three four years ago as sales sagged and losses mounted, the government would have bailed them out. 

To do what, beats me, but you can be sure EK would not be looking at The End now if that were the case. 

Cynicsm aside, EK is  a great example of just how fast things can change.  Smith Corona, Remington Rand, Epson, Packard Bell, all gone or changed

Will this idea work for Polaroid

http://www.polaroid.com/en/stream

Hmm, I can do that with my HP printer.

And so it goes.