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wbl 3y ago
The buggy wip maker couldn't have stopped Ford
- somat 3y ago
  A strangely mixed metaphor, and incorrect, the buggy manufacturer did well enough... for a while at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker
  - TylerE 3y ago
    Not a mixed metaphor, it’s a standard phrase. Note buggy WHIP makers, not buggy makers.
    - somat 3y ago
      It is mixed because it is comparing two different class of items whips to cars does not really compare. Cars to buggies would compare or perhaps whips to steering wheels.
      - stonogo 3y ago
        No, it's not mixed. It's related to the saying about the people who get rich off a gold rush being the ones who sell shovels. In the buggy-whip case, it's about a company not understanding the market changing entirely to make them obsolete. The transportation market moved to cars, and so nobody needs a buggy whip.
  - AndrewKemendo 3y ago
    Watch the movie “other people’s money” for the original reference
    - stonogo 3y ago
      The original reference is probably Levitt's "Marketing Myopia" (https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn4foOUm3AoC https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn4foOUm3AoC). Levitt uses it to illustrate that companies should focus on customers rather than products.
      - AndrewKemendo 3y ago
        Well OPM came out in 1991 so I doubt it. https://youtu.be/62kxPyNZF3Q https://youtu.be/62kxPyNZF3Q
        stonogo 3y ago
        Note the imprint, "Harvard business review classics." What I linked to is a 2008 republication of a book from 1975. The buggy-whip analogy also appears in a journal article of the same name by the same author in 1960. More info here: https://hbr.org/2016/08/a-refresher-on-marketing-myopia https://hbr.org/2016/08/a-refresher-on-marketing-myopia
        AndrewKemendo 3y ago
        Thanks for the detail and I should have dug deeper
  - wbl 3y ago
    Because they invested in the new up and coming thing and transferred the knowledge that applied.

wbl 3y ago

The buggy wip maker couldn't have stopped Ford

somat 3y ago
A strangely mixed metaphor, and incorrect, the buggy manufacturer did well enough... for a while at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker
- TylerE 3y ago
  Not a mixed metaphor, it’s a standard phrase. Note buggy WHIP makers, not buggy makers.
  - somat 3y ago
    It is mixed because it is comparing two different class of items whips to cars does not really compare. Cars to buggies would compare or perhaps whips to steering wheels.
    - stonogo 3y ago
      No, it's not mixed. It's related to the saying about the people who get rich off a gold rush being the ones who sell shovels. In the buggy-whip case, it's about a company not understanding the market changing entirely to make them obsolete. The transportation market moved to cars, and so nobody needs a buggy whip.
- AndrewKemendo 3y ago
  Watch the movie “other people’s money” for the original reference
  - stonogo 3y ago
    The original reference is probably Levitt's "Marketing Myopia" (https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn4foOUm3AoC https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn4foOUm3AoC). Levitt uses it to illustrate that companies should focus on customers rather than products.
    - AndrewKemendo 3y ago
      Well OPM came out in 1991 so I doubt it. https://youtu.be/62kxPyNZF3Q https://youtu.be/62kxPyNZF3Q
      - stonogo 3y ago
        Note the imprint, "Harvard business review classics." What I linked to is a 2008 republication of a book from 1975. The buggy-whip analogy also appears in a journal article of the same name by the same author in 1960. More info here: https://hbr.org/2016/08/a-refresher-on-marketing-myopia https://hbr.org/2016/08/a-refresher-on-marketing-myopia
        AndrewKemendo 3y ago
        Thanks for the detail and I should have dug deeper
- wbl 3y ago
  Because they invested in the new up and coming thing and transferred the knowledge that applied.