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

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1997
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The Innovator's Dilemma demonstrates why outstanding companies that had their competitive antennae up, listened astutely to customers, and invested aggressively in new technologies still lost their market dominance. Drawing on patterns of innovation in a variety of industries, the author argues that good business practices can, nevertheless, weaken a great firm. He shows how truly important, breakthrough innovations are often initially rejected by customers that cannot currently use them, leading firms to allow their most important innovations to languish. Many companies now face the innovator's dilemma. Keeping close to customers is critical for current success. But long-term growth and profits depend upon a very different managerial formula. This book will help managers see the changes that may be coming their way and will show them how to respond for success. It is part of the The Management of Innovation and Change series.

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The Innovator's Dilemma demonstrates why outstanding companies that had their competitive antennae up, listened astutely to customers, and invested aggressively in new technologies still lost their market dominance. Drawing on patterns of innovation in a variety of industries, the author argues that good business practices can, nevertheless, weaken a great firm. He shows how truly important, breakthrough innovations are often initially rejected by customers that cannot currently use them, leading firms to allow their most important innovations to languish. Many companies now face the innovator's dilemma. Keeping close to customers is critical for current success. But long-term growth and profits depend upon a very different managerial formula. This book will help managers see the changes that may be coming their way and will show them how to respond for success. It is part of the The Management of Innovation and Change series.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: Underlining
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 01 Jul 1997
ISBN 10: 0875845851
ISBN 13: 9780875845852

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I'd recommend that every business pick up and read Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma. Forbes.com

The process of Low End Disruption is beautifully described in Clayton Christensen's series of books: The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution and The Innovator's DNA. If you haven't read them, you should. What's amazing about these books is not only how important their conclusions are but how well researched they are. TechCrunch

a holy book for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Named one of The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books by TIME Magazine (TIME.com)

I came very late to that book [The Innovator's Dilemma]. I only read it six months ago. And I haven't stopped thinking of it ever since. Malcolm Gladwell, FastCompany.com

Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma (1997) introduced one of the most influential modern business ideas disruptive innovation and proved that high academic theory need not be a disadvantage in a book aimed at the general reader. - The Economist

Author Bio

Clayton M. Christensen, an associate professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, is the coauthor of numerous articles in journals such as Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Business History Review, and Harvard Business Review.