Deployment Period

2 of our books define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.

the period in a technological revolution, following the Installation Period and the Turning Point, where companies that master the means of production earn increasingly larger portions of the economy and the new infrastructure.

— Project to Product, Mik Kersten

the Deployment Period, when there is a transition from early-stage financial capital, such as venture investment, to the production capital driven by companies delivering products using the new technological paradigm.

— Output to Outcome, in “Chapter 0: Foundations”, Mik Kersten

See also deployment · Installation Period · production capital · Age of Software · Business Model disruption · Creative Destruction

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