The Innovator's Dilemma
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen
Learn how even the most successful companies can lose market leadership in the face of disruptive innovation. Renowned author Clayton M. Christensen offers a set of rules for capitalizing on these new waves of innovation, using both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide. This classic bestseller, cited by the likes of Steve Jobs and Malcolm Gladwell, is a must-read for any manager, leader, or entrepreneur.
Publish Date
2003-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
2003-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1997
Goodreads Rating
4.04
ISBN
8601300047348
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Recommendations
19
Recommendations
This helped me make sense of why things worked and didn't work in the technology industry. – source
Absolutely brilliant. Clayton Christensen provides an insightful analysis of changing technology and its importance to a company’s future success. – source
2014-10-30T00:00:00.000Z
Read these three books: Crossing the Chasm, the Innovators Dilemma, and Behind the Cloud. These three combined, if you binge and read them all, you will come out ahead. – source2007-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/687382?shelf=best-of-business2009-06-21T00:00:00.000Z
An analysis of why great companies fail, because innovation often requires throwing out everything that has made you successful in the past. Disruptive technologies are often born on the fringes, in markets where worse is better. – source2016-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
This was a formative read for me: it taught me why it’s so hard to come up with a second hit and why startups often have the advantage when creating curve-jumping innovation. – source2001-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon/dp/B00FJFJOLC/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Everything+Store%3A+Jeff+Bezos+and+the+Age+of+Amazon&qid=1580984952&s=books&sr=1-12011-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
Andy Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive is a great book on strategy as is The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. – source2018-06-28T15:43:51.000Z
Other books that all entrepreneurs should read: 1) @MichaelEPorter, Competitive Strategy, 2) @geoffreyamoore Crossing the Chasm, 3) @claychristensen Innovator's Dilemma, and 4) @Jerry_Kaplan Startup – source2020-12-18T04:57:40.000Z
Two of the most influential books of my life “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and “Innovator’s Dilemma” written by Mormons. One of my favorite startup founders is Mormon, too. His name is Derek Anderson 👇🏼👇🏼 – source2018-08-27T00:00:00.000Z
https://tim.blog/2018/08/27/drew-houston/2016-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma is the foundational read for managing disruptive innovation. Since then, Christensen, who was channeling Schumpeter, [the inventor of the term ‘creative destruction’], has bounced between arguing that innovation comes from startups and that innovation comes from corporations. The answer, of course, is that he is right in both cases. – source2015-11-10T00:00:00.000Z
Q. - What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs and why?
M.L. -Some good ones from the "pure business" category: Zero to One, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, The Innovator's Dilemma, Good to Great, etc. Personally, I prefer less advice, more history. From my favorite business segment: Too Big To Fail, Ascent of Money, When Genius Failed, etc. Books on applied psychology (Influence, Predictably Irrational, etc) are another way to round out primarily technological education :) – source2019-04-11T17:55:11.000Z
8/ Innovator’s Dilemma. @claychristensen is a great management theorist (exceptionally rare in a world of trite oversimplifications) who explores powerful forces that drive the trajectory of companies and industries.
@HarvardBiz @HarvardHBS @ChristensenInst @InnosightTeam – source2020-01-25T02:48:15.000Z
RIP, Clayton Christensen: @HarvardHBS professor introduced the concept of “disruptive innovation” and his 1997 book “The Innovator’s Dilemma” remains a powerful read on technology, business incentives, and organization (major application to telecom field). – source2021-04-08T01:45:08.000Z
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M Christensen. A classic book on innovation, focusing on how large companies can be "disrupted" by new technologies. – source2013-11-18T16:59:06.000Z
@cwodtke Mythical Man-Month--Fred Brooks. The Innovator's Dilemma--Clay Christensen, Systemantics--J. Gall. Wait, those aren't UX books. – source