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In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership, or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate. Focusing on... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Established firms step up the pace of sustaining technological development”
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“New companies were formed, and markets for the disruptive technologies were found by trial and error”
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“They planned to fail early and inexpensively in the search for the market for a disruptive technology”
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“When commercializing disruptive technologies, they found or developed new markets that valued the attributes of the disruptive products, rather than search for a technological breakthrough so that the disruptive product could compete as a sustaining technology in mainstream markets”
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“Disruptive Technologies are Typically Simpler, Cheaper, and More Reliable and Convenient than Established Technologies”
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“Most executives would like to believe that they're in charge of their organizations, that they make the crucial decisions and that when they decide that something should be done everyone snaps to and executes.”
First Sentence
WHEN I BEGAN my search for an answer to the puzzle of why the best firms can fail, a friend offered some sage advice.
Table of Contents
I. In Gratitude
II. Introduction
III. Part One: Why Great Companies Can Fail
1. How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry
2. Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate
3. Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry
4. What Goes Up, Can't Go Down
IV. Part Two: Managing Disruptive Technological Change
5. Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them
6. Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market
7. Discovering New and Emerging Markets
8. How to Appraise Your Organization's Capabilities and Disabilities
9. Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle
10. Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study
11. The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary
V. The Innovator's Dilemma Book Group Guide
VI. Index
VII. About the Author
Authors & Contributors
- Clayton M. Christensen (Author)
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