Zook and other authors say that Intel actually has trouble growing through adjacency moves, not because of poor management but because of the overwhelming managerial demands of its core business.
As he thinks about how to get his company growing in a declining cigarette market, Szymanczyk has etched out what he calls an "adjacency strategy," pursuing new products that are "adjacent" to cigarettes.
But the computation time should be higher for other relations, as the possible number of relations is a quadratic function of the number of genes, while the number of adjacencies only grows linearly.
Armed with such Amazon-scale ambitions, and a much more profitable business model, Facebook will grow as a disruptive force in numerous adjacencies to its core social network.
Companies that execute adjacency moves using a repeatable formula grow revenues three times faster than average firms in their industry.
Using adjacency information, Greedy negative pressure push algorithm can efficiently grow the transmitting path to achieve the minimum energy consumption for relays model.
Rather, in today's technology-enabled, fast-moving, automated and algorithm-driven marketing landscape, we have all grown increasingly focused on audiences and not another critical A-word: adjacency.
Chief executive Ian King said: "The group is well placed to continue to generate attractive returns for shareholders as defence budgets recover and our commercial adjacencies of cyber and commercial electronics continue to grow".
As digital advertising has grown increasingly sophisticated and popular, we have shifted away from thinking as much about adjacency as perhaps we should.
ST saw an adjacency opportunity: Its leading technology in power management for microprocessors could be adapted to grow with the capabilities of wireless handsets.
Specifically, by treating the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Systems View 3 (SV3) as an adjacency matrix, we assess how the addition of a new subsystem to an immature architecture might grow the existing network.
