Table of Contents

Part 1 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 come down. Part 2 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; markets that do not exist cannot be analyzed - suppliers and customers must discover them together; technology supply, market demand, and the product life cycle. Part 3 Managing disruptive technological change - a case study of the electric vehicle: managing disruptive technological change - a case study of the electric vehicle.

About the Author

Clayton M. Christensen, an associate professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, is the coauthor of numerous articles in journals such as Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, Business History Review, and Harvard Business Review.

Reviews

“I’d recommend that every business pick up and read Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma.” — Forbes.com

“The process of Low End Disruption is beautifully described in Clayton Christensen’s series of books: The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution and The Innovator’s DNA. If you haven’t read them, you should. What’s amazing about these books is not only how important their conclusions are but how well researched they are.” — TechCrunch

“a holy book for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley…” — Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Named one of "The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books" by TIME Magazine (TIME.com)

"I came very late to that book [The Innovator’s Dilemma]. I only read it six months ago. And I haven't stopped thinking of it ever since. – Malcolm Gladwell, FastCompany.com

“Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997) introduced one of the most influential modern business ideas—disruptive innovation—and proved that high academic theory need not be a disadvantage in a book aimed at the general reader.” - The Economist