The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 142219602X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, Clay Christensen’s work continues to underpin today’s most innovative leaders and organizations.The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by EditorsAn innovation classic. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices.Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator’s Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.Sharp, cogent, and provocativeand consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all timeThe Innovator’s Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.. Christensen.His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this cl
These products did not come about as the result of successful companies carrying out sound business practices in established markets. Highly recommended. At the heart of The Innovator's Dilemma is how a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat. In The Innovator's Dilemma, author Clayton M. Christensen shows how these and other products cut into the low end of the marketplace and eventually evolved to displace high-end competitors and their reigning technologies. --Harry C. Succinct and clearly written, The Innovator's Dilemma is an important book that belongs on every manager's bookshelf. What do the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and hydraulic excavators have in
despite having good managers, because they fail to find the new Amazon Customer The Innovator’s Dilemma is an interesting work written by Clayton M. Christensen in 1997. The book seeks to explain why certain businesses are successful in their ventures and why other firms fail in response to new technologies. Christensen tries to explain throughout the book why some firms, when new technologies enter the market, fail either because they adapt the new technology or not. The author initially believes that new technologies are constantly emerging and all businesses must continually adapt to stay relevant. However, this proves to be false as i. "Essential to understanding innovation" according to Donald A. Gooding. I've been involved in innovation most of my career, and now wish I'd read this book much earlier. The simple but powerful thesis of the book is backed up by data and case studies from disparate industries. Like many business books it is a bit repetitive at the end. And my Kindle edition suffered from poor editing in the first few sections although those problems disappeared later on. But the ideas and usefulness are five stars.. Treb Orf said A thorough work that backs up its ideas with numerous examples. The dilemma laid out in this book, the management challenges it provokes and the various responses by organizations are well laid out and thought provoking.It could use an update where Tesla both validates some of the hypotheses in the section on electric vehicles, yet is disruptive not by being cheaper but by moving to a market that could appreciate a higher priced vehicle - high performance luxury cars, and now attacks the mainstream market by moving down instead of the conventional moving upmarket. This leads me to think that the book has some key concepts right,