The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000MGTPY4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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People looking for quick fixes may find the charts, diagrams and extensive footnotes daunting, but readers familiar with more technical business management tomes will find this one both stimulating and beneficial.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma) analyzes the strategies that allow corporations to successfully grow new businesses and outpace the other players in the marketplace. They cite such companies as IBM, AT&T, Sony, Microsoft and others to illustrate their points. Christensen's earlier book examined how focusing on profits can destroy even well-run corporations, while this book focuses on companies expanding by being "disruptors" who are able to outpace their entrenched competition. For example, in discussing whether
Christensen exposed this crushing paradox behind the failure of many industry leaders: by placing too much focus on pleasing their most profitable customers, these firms actually paved the way for their own demise by ignoring the disruptive technologies that aggressively evolved to displace them. Citing in-depth research and theories tested in hundreds of companies across many industries, the authors identify the processes that create successful innovationand they show managers how to tailor their strategies to the changing circumstances of a dynamic world.The Innovator’s Solution is an important addition to any innovation library.Published by Harvard Business Review Press.. A seminal work by bestselling author Clayton M. Raynor help all companies understand how to become disruptors themselves.Clay Christensen (author of the award-winning Harvard Business Review article, How Will You Measure Your Life?”) and
Every thinker has his boundaries and Christensen finds his own in this book Daniel Kh If you have missed Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma", go and buy it, as it is a very thoughtful book talking about the problems of innovation and how they manifest itself in large corporations."Innovator's solution" is supposed to be a continuation of this work, and a bridge between thoughtful questions and useful answers that supposedly can benefit the innovators. Unfortunately, it is not up to this task.The book still has it's own merits, mostly in summarizing the opposing forces of. do not start a new venture in business without it Flavio Tosi - Business Exploration This book is the second of the christensen's Innovators saga.It refreshes and give a deeper insight to the concepts of sustaining vs disruptive innovation and adds several elements that you have to keep in mind to set up the strategy for your innovation.More than an "how to" is a kind of "how not to" make "autopilot" mistakes.I have been in GE for almost 15 year, and I have seen most of the things here described happen. And they happen because of the inherent business dynamics described. Insightful, theoretical, traditional and wrong at times Bas Vodde The innovator's solution is a hard book for me to review. At times, I felt this was one of the best books I've ever read, but at other times I would have wanted to throw it away. That's also how I ended up giving it a 3 star review. It's a good book, but I wouldn't recommend it quickly.As the title suggests, the book is a follow-up on the Innovator's Dilemma, which has been a classic business book on how large established companies are surprised by disruptive technology that eventually