The Innovator's Dilemma
Subtitle: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
By: Clayton M. Christensen.
Series: The management of innovation and change series
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100000000
Subjects: Creative ability in business; Industrial management; Customer services; Success in business
Description: This book takes the radical position that great companies can fail precisely because they do everything right. It demonstrates why outstanding companies that had their competitive antennae up, listened astutely to customers, and invested aggressively in new technologies still lost their market leadership when confronted with disruptive changes in technology and market structure. And it tells how to avoid a similar fate.

Using the lessons of successes and failures of leading companies, The Innovator's Dilemma presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. These principles will help managers determine when it is right not to listen to customers, when to invest in developing lower-performance products that promise lower margins, and when to pursue small markets at the expense of seemingly larger and more lucrative ones.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In Gratitude
pagenum: vii; title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; title: Part One:  Why Great Companies Can Fail
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: How Can Great Firms Fail?  Insignts from the Hard Disk Drive Industry
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate
pagenum: 29; label: 3
title: Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry
pagenum: 61; label: 4
title: What Goes Up, Can't Go Down
pagenum: 77; title: Part Two: Making Disruptive Technological Change
pagenum: 97; label: 5
title: Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them
pagenum: 101; label: 6
title: Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market
pagenum: 125; label: 7
title: Discovering new and Emerging Markets
pagenum: 147; label: 8
title: Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle
pagenum: 165; label: 9
title: Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study
pagenum: 187; label: 10
title: The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary
pagenum: 207; title: Index
pagenum: 213; title: About the Author
pagenum: 227