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    The Innovator's Dilemma : When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

    by Clayton M. Christensen


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    • ISBN-13: 9781633691780
    • Publisher: Two Rivers Distribution
    • Publication date: 01/05/2016
    • Edition description: Reprint
    • Sales rank: 23,352
    • Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

    Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the author of eight critically acclaimed books, including the bestsellers The Innovator’s Solution , How Will You Measure Your Life? , and Disrupting Class . Christensen is the cofounder of Innosight, a management consultancy; Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm; and the Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank.

    Table of Contents

    In Gratitude vii

    Preface ix

    Introduction xiii

    Part 1 Why Great Companies Can Fail 1

    1 How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry 3

    2 Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate 29

    3 Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry 61

    4 What Goes Up, Can't Go Down 77

    Part 2 Managing Disruptive Technological Change 97

    5 Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them 101

    6 Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market 121

    7 Discovering New and Emerging Markets 143

    8 How to Appraise Your Organization's Capabilities and Disabilities 161

    9 Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle 183

    10 Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study 205

    11 The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary 225

    The Innovator's Dilemma Book Group Guide 231

    Index 239

    About the Author 255

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    A Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller . Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. An innovation classic. 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. Christensen.

    His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller—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.

    Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. 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 provocative—and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time— The Innovator’s Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.

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    A Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame.

    “His book, one of the most significant business books of the past 50 years, became a mammoth bestseller, and its title entered the language.” — Fortune magazine

    “Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma is the foundational read for managing disruptive innovation.” — Steve Blank, Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur and academician, as seen in strategy+business magazine

    “This is an important read, even if you’re at the very early stages of growing a startup.” — Drew Houston, CEO, Dropbox

    Praise for The Innovator’s Dilemma and Clayton M. Christensen :

    Forbes
    “[Clayton Christensen is] one of the most influential business theorists of the last fifty years.”

    The Financial Times
    The Innovator’s Dilemma achieves a rare feat: It is at once a satisfying intellectual solution to a long-standing business puzzle and a practical guide for executives and investors.”

    Wired
    “. . . Required reading in Silicon Valley, where it has been championed by the likes of Steve Jobs, George Gilder, and Andy Grove.”

    The Huffington Post
    “A seminal book.”

    Bloomberg Businessweek
    “A holy book for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley . . .”

    Fortune
    “The notion of ‘disruptive technology’ is one of the timeliest ideas of the Internet age. Coined by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, it’s at the heart of his influential book The Innovator’s Dilemma .”

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