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

Written by Venkadesh Narayanan | Jul 25, 2020 9:57:04 AM


The best-selling 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.

This lucid and provocative analysis of corporate failure should be required reading for CEOs and managers. It's not about small or mismanaged companies, but of sterling national and international corporations that failed in large measure because they were customer-oriented and did everything right. This is succinctly pointed out by the author in the subtitle of his publication, 'When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail'. Herein lies the crux of the dilemma as Dr. Christensen analyzes not only why great companies fail, but also discusses and examines the concepts and issues of managing disruptive technological change. Certainly incompetence, arrogance and bureaucracy deserve a share of the credit, but the patterns of failure are far more fundamental and go deeper. Dr. Christensen is associated with the Harvard Business School.

Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail | Clayton M. Christensen  | Harvard Business

         

Table of Contents

Part 1: WHY GREAT COMPANIES CAN FAIL

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

Chapter 2:  Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate

Chapter 3: Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry

Chapter 4: What Goes Up, Can’t Go Down

Part Two: MANAGING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

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

Chapter 6: Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market

Chapter 7: Discovering New and Emerging Markets

Chapter 8T: How to Appraise Your Organization’s Capabilities and Disabilities

Chpater 9: Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle

Chapter 10: Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study

Chapter 11: The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary

LINK FOR THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B00E257S86/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1