The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y4RRGVV |
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| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic best seller - one of the most influential business books of all time - innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right - yet still lose market leadership
despite having good managers, because they fail to find the new 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 continua. Donald A. Gooding said Essential to understanding innovation. 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.. 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.