Did you ever buy a Polaroid instant camera?

Probably.

If you did, and many did, you probably marvelled at the film and the organic process involved in taking pictures.

You weren’t the only one. Polaroid film also gained a massive following amongst professional and amateur photographers who valued its unique characteristics. Specifically they loved the freedom the film gave them to create and interact with the images they were capturing.

Sadly, Polaroid went bust in the 90’s and last year, the last Polaroid film producing factory shut its doors in the States.

And that, as they say, was that.

Well not quite - as you will see from the link below.

http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

This is a wonderful example of entrepreneurship and something which we will believe  we will start to see more of.

It also goes to show you that one of the biggest risks in down sizing your work force, shutting a production facility and hoping it will go away is that it won’t.

In fact, your old employees may decide that they know the market, the production process, the value chain, in fact everything about delivering value to customers better than you, the management team.

And guess what, they may just be right!

Viva la entrepreneur!