Kodak moment

plural Kodak moments

1. informalA sentimental or charming moment worthy of capturing in a photograph.

   Instead she held his hand and they walked together. I looked at both of them and I knew that it was a Kodak moment. I was so proud of my daughter.

   2003, Marissa Marchan, A Marriage Made in Heaven and Hell

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   ‘Don’t you ever stop? This is not going to be a Kodak moment, I promise you. It’s not going to be hugs and tears. There’s no place for a swelling violins sound track.’

   1994, Laramie Dunaway, Women on Top, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 104

   These Islamic headcutters in headscarves are so warped, they consider beheadings nothing more than a Kodak moment to share with friends, followers, and foes alike.

   2005, Michael Savage, Liberalism is a mental disorder: Savage solutions

2. informalbusinessThe situation in which a business fails to foresee changes within its industry and drops from a market-dominant position to being a minor player or declares bankruptcy.

   Platinum sector faces its Kodak moment in fuel cell technology [title]

   2015 May 29, Clara Denina, Silvia Antonioli, “Platinum sector faces its Kodak moment in fuel cell technology”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2015

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   THIS is your Kodak moment. Kodak moment, in this case, does not mean a moment to capture on film; rather, it means the time in history when an upstart technology changed the game; e.g., digital photography emerged and Kodak chose to ignore it until it was too late.

   2014 May 25, Patrick Connor, “This is the Kodak Moment for the Auto Industry”, in Cars With Cords

   Every large company or brand or product must adapt to be relevant. Every company is right now afraid of having a Kodak Moment.

   2015, David Butler, Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (and How You Can Too)

   A “Kodak moment” might better refer to the failure of a once-dominant business to respond to a disruptive new technology—in Kodak’s case: digital photography.

   2015 April 30, Jerry Ross, “The Wrong Kind of “Kodak Moment” Will Big Banks Become the Next Victims of Tech Disruption?”, in LinkedIn