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The Innovator's Dilemma Specs:
Product Name
The Innovator's Dilemma
Manufacturer
HarperCollins
Product Number MPN
0060521996
Retail Price
$17.95
EAN-14
09780060521998
UPC
978006052199
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Title
The Innovator's Dilemma
ISBN
0060521996
Author(s)
Clayton M. Christensen
Release Date
07 January, 2003, 2003-01
Format
Paperback
Num of Pages
320
Num. of Items
1
EAN
9780060521998
Weight
0.5 lbs.
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"Reader from India"
2009-10-01
- Reviewed By User: A18AI5R1460L8H
Whatever Christensen has to offer he does it in the introduction. The rest of the chapters are merely a rehash of whatever has been said in the introduction with examples. So read the introduction. Then read the "Book Group Guide" at the end. And if you have time go over the chapters.
In The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen shows how even great companies, with great managers, who are doing everything "right", can still be stymied, and can even be put out of business by, what he calls "disruptive technologies".
The term disruptive technology is bandied about quite a bit today, but often people seem to mean by it a technology that is radically different from what went before. This in contrast to technologies that build upon well-practiced capabilities, otherwise known as incremental improvements.
But Christensen shows that established companies can introduce either incremental or completely radical technologies and be very successful, as long as they are sustaining and not disruptive technologies.
What makes a technology "disruptive", if it is not how radically different it is? Let us say you are in an established company. A disruptive technology is one that your own customers do not want. It doesn't fit their needs, for one reason or another. It doesn't fit into your established markets.
Meanwhile there is some other market elsewhere that does want it, but that market tends to be small, it tends to be undefined, and as a result it is not of interest to an established company. It doesn't fit the growth needs of your company. Often a smaller company will create and nurture this other market. Because the company is smaller, it can get excited about this smaller market.
Finally, the disruption comes about because the new technology improves enough that your own customers now want it. But as you haven't been paying attention to it until now, the smaller company has all the experience in the new technology and proceeds to methodically take all your customers.
The Innovator's Dilemma outlines this phenomenon and gives many examples from wildly different industries. The process happens in fast moving industries and slow moving industries. It happens in medicine, greeting cards, notebook computers, utility companies, and disk drive companies. It can happen to YOU.
Then in the second half of the book, some ways to address the dilemma are outlined.
Chirstensen writes well, and includes plenty of examples and charts and graphs to illustrate his points. Sometimes business books can seem dull or plodding or irrelevant to someone without an MBA, but not this one.
Highly recommended to anyone interested in how companies in their own industry can better handle change and disruption.
"Disruptive Thoughts"
2009-09-16
- Reviewed By User: AXX1G1PAINM89
It is a really classic book regarding innovation and how to cope with it. Initially it takes some time to realize some concepts like "do not listen to your customers all the time" or "sometimes, principles of good management are not the most adequate'.
Disruptive innovations are distinct from radical ones (breakthroughs) and should be addressed differently. Small markets do not solve the growth needs of large firms, but they might hold opportunities to paradigm changes that will revolutionize an entire industry.
Clayton Christensen tell us the story of disruptive innovation in some industries and lead us to see the evolution of these changes: hard-disk drives, excavators are some of the examples. A new perspective is presented and it is absolutely vital to understand it. All entrepreneurs should read it.
"Great book"
2009-08-17
- Reviewed By User: AMUJTCLRKAKOP
Great book that goes beyond the typical explanations of why great companies never see their downfall coming.
"Still an Important Book"
2009-04-27
- Reviewed By User: A4RMEWMUVUQGM
You'd think thatr a six year-old book about the tech field would be way out of date - but the ideas presented here are still important and big companies are more vulnerable than ever to a small, disruptive challenger.
"The best book about innovation"
2009-04-13
- Reviewed By User: A1DW1IS1YUC6J3
This is a terrific book. 1. It's founded in theory 2. It's well written 3. It has examples from different areas This is not a "consultant book": it doesn't talk about the wonderful job the author have done in a Fortune 500s. It's not an "airport book" either: you will need time to read and digest it. It will take time. But it is worthwhile.
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