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

• Main Author: Christensen, Clayton M. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, Mass Harvard Business School Press 1997
• Series: The management of innovation and change series
• Subjects: Creative ability in business; Industrial management; Customer services; Success in business
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• Physical Description: xxiv, 225 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0875845851

His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller, innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right yet still lose market leadership. Read this international bestseller to avoid a similar fate. Clay Christensen who authored the award-winning Harvard Business Review article How Will You Measure Your Life?" 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, provocative, and one of the most influential business books of all time The Innovator's Dilemma is the book no manager or entrepreneur should be without.