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The innovator's dilemma : when new technologies cause great firms to fail /

Christensen, Clayton M.,

The innovator's dilemma : when new technologies cause great firms to fail / Clayton M. Christensen. - [Third edition?] - xxxi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. - The management of innovation and change series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: WHY GREAT COMPANIES CAN FAIL -- 1 How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive -- 2 Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate -- 3 Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry -- 4 What Goes Up, Can't Go Down -- PART TWO: MANAGING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE -- 5 Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them -- 6 Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market -- 7 Discovering New and Emerging Markets -- 8 How to Appraise Your Organization's Capabilities and Disabilities -- 9 Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle -- 10 Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study -- 11 The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary.

"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,"--Amazon.com.

9781633691780


Creative ability in business.
Customer services.
Industrial management.
Success in business.

HD53 / .C49 2016

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