Sunday, November 11, 2007

Help - Pace in Industry

For a few upcoming presentations, I would love to be able to cite how much faster things are moving today for corporations than in the past. Certainly, we all are seeing and feeling it. Yet, I've been struggling to find good charts, graphs, quotes, etc. that show examples of:
  • Trends in the number of new products introduced
  • Trends in the time it takes from concept through launch and lifetime of new products
  • Other aspects of the pace for corporate entities
I saw an interesting article that talked about the concept of "corporate clock speed" and they generally said that it was ever increasing, but how about some proof.

For example, is there a source that shows the number of new car models introduced each year?

What would capture the fact that corporate environments are moving at a faster pace?

Update - here's an example that came from one of the comments that shows roughly the kind of thing I'm going for. It shows that while chips are becoming ever more complex (number of gates), the time taken to design them is ever shorter. Further there are more and more chips coming out. Any others?

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