The innovator's dilemma : the revolutionary book that will change the way you do business : Christensen, Clayton M : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

xxxvii, 286 pages : 21 cm

An analysis of the new business paradigm shows how firms that do "everything right" can nevertheless fail because of new technologies and disruptions in the market structure

Includes index

Originally published: 1st HarperBusiness ed. New York : HarperBusiness, ©2000. With a new preface

Part one: Why great companies can fail. How can great firms fail? Insights from the hard disk drive industry ; Value networks and the impetus to innovate ; Disruptive technological change in the mechanical excavator industry ; What goes up, can't go down -- Part two: Managing disruptive technological change. Give responsibility for disruptive technologies to organizations whose customers need them ; Match the size of the organization to the size of the market ; Discovering new and emerging markets ; How to appraise your organization's capabilities and disabilities ; Performance provided, market demand, and the product life cycle ; Managing disruptive technological change: a case study ; The dilemmas of innovation: a summary