[oh8eleven]

Kodak was selling buggy whips in the digital age.
BS. Besides film, they also sold the same digital products that the Japanese companies sold.
The difference was Kodak's poor management ...

"Kodak is at death’s door; Fujifilm, its old rival, is thriving. Why?"

[Zeneta]

Clearly Kodak didn’t make the transition to a digital world.

I put that failure on very shortsighted leaders.

Xerox, on the other hand is interesting. They are responsible for much of the digital economies beginnings and yet failed to embrace the work of their research teams.

Xerox has survived but not without a long and difficult nearly complete restructuring.

[ctdonath2]

I was at Kodak when the fatal decision was made. In short, they confused distributors with customers - they focused on serving the retail stores, ignoring who was actually paying for the products.