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'Do you think Kappmeyer should polarity the proposal, and why? What pushed USS to stay with conventional engine room? My recommendation based on psychoanalysis of the case and understanding the basic temper of disruptive technologies, and their impact on the world(a) industry is that Kappmeyer should not sign the proposal. The master(prenominal) reason for that is USS is tying itself to an existing, but anxious(p) business model and engineering science. While this curriculum may make sense in the short-term, it does not have long-term sustainability. The market has already indicated that it is changing, adapting to minimills, and this trend would likely continue.\r\nAs minimill technology becomes more sophisticated, their quality and separate disadvantages would reduce and they would start competing with integrated manufacturing stock-still in the high-end markets. Unfortunately for USS, there is no silver bullet. Since USS is already cloaked in the market, they provide have to go through a difficult, and expensive, change, or they will end up perishing as the industry changes around them. USS authoritative decided to stay with conventional consecutive casting technology simply because they were facial expression at the shorter-term future, and was not willing to polish off the financial hit and risk associated with a new disruptive technology. Additionally, they were tying themselves to the requirements of the contemporary customers, and ignoring potentially new users for the future.\r\nDid USS team scotch the right answer to the wrong dubiousness? What if, rather than whether USS should install CSP in Mon valley, Kappmeyer has asked whether USS should invest in or participate in this technology? Would you have answered that question other than than you did when the problem was framed as Mon Valley issue?\r\n• What should USS’s next technical move be? Should USS take another(prenominal) â€Å"long shot” to leapfrog onw ard of Nucor? Or should it â€Å"get on the realm” neck-to-neck with Nucor, employing a viable commercial technology as soon as attainable incrementally improving CSP?\r\nReadings\r\n• Christensen (1995). Disruptive technologies: Catching the wave, HBR\r\n'