The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

despite having good managers, because they fail to find the new Amazon Customer 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 emerg. Essential to understanding innovation Donald A. Gooding 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.. Treb Orf said 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 o

Succinct and clearly written, The Innovator's Dilemma is an important book that belongs on every manager's bookshelf. What do the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and hydraulic excavators have in common? They are all examples of disruptive technologies that helped to redefine the competitive landscape of their respective markets. Christensen writes that even the best-managed companies, in spite of their attention to customers and continual investment in new technology, are susceptible to failure no matter what the industry, be it hard drives or consumer retailing. Christensen shows how these and other products cut into the low end of the marketplace and eventually evolved to displace high-end competitors and their reigning technologies. In The Innovator's Dilemma, author Clayton M. Edwards. Highly recommended. At the heart of The Innovator's Dilemma is how a successful com

Christensen.His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. 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 phe