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Summary: Required reading for anyone concerned with new products
Review: A refreshing change from the literature which deals with structured approaches for current products. Disruptive technologies which improve over a period of time and new products which apparently have inferior performance and are looking for new markets is a totally novel way of looking at things. My own experience in a two wheeler manufacturer in India has vindicated this approach. I hope our managment will now look at candidates for new product development with a fresh insight. Great stuff.
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Summary: When Innovation and Administration Conflict, Who Wins?
Review: Successful companies need to be both innovative, and disciplined in creating profitable results from that innovation. The Innovator's Dilemma nicely spells out what usually happens when an innovative company with good administration runs into an innovative competitor who is new to the industry or this product/service: The company with something to lose from fostering the new innovation will usually protect the old at the expense of the new. Dramatic loss of position will inevitably follow for the company with the admistrative strength to protect profits, if the innovation requires the company to move in a new direction. To better understand the generic problem described here (because it applies to a lot more than just innovation, it also affects any needed change), you should read In Pursuit of Prime or any of the other Adizes books on life cycles of company management issues. The Innovator's Dilemma is a valuable addition to the literature of change management. You should read it if your industry is affected by new technologies that could make what you do today obsolete. Then you will also need to hone your organizational change skills because disbelief, procrastination, miscommunication, misconceptions, tradition, and bureaucracy will become significant hurdles.
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Summary: Profound
Review: Simply put, this is one of the best books on business I have ever read. The findings are absolutely counterintuitive, and that's what accounts for Christensen's brilliance. Yes, there's a lot of technobabble on the disk drive industry. But this book is more academic than most 'pop' business books, and seeks a more thourough proof. THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT BUSINESS AND MANAGE YOUR COMPANY, GUARANTEED.
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Summary: Interesting, but not interesting enough.
Review: Well, if you are a horror fan of like Stephen King books you'll most probably LOVE this book. If you are anything but, this book is most definently NOT for you. That is my review.
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Summary: Powerful evidence for know-it-all mgrs to stop & listen
Review: This book is one of the best books on my list. Very powerful documented evidence that good managers can actually become victim to being blind in a sense, by "properly" avoiding new innovative projects or markets. Loved it.
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Summary: This book explains how business empires are undone!
Review: This book is enormously useful not only for corporate executives and Boards but also for the small businessman who wants to avoid being swallowed up by "disruptive technologies" which undermine and eliminate established firms and even whole industries. It makes clear why the more established, the more sensitive to best-customer needs an industry or firm becomes, the more it is likely to be toppled by a low-margin, low-quality, low-cost disruptive competitive technology (and the brand new industry that will exploit that new, disruptive technology). Such a new industry will advance on the incumbent in ways VIRTUALLY UNABLE TO BE DETECTED OR COUNTERED without the benefit of Dr. Christensen's analysis. This book and its analysis is a tour de force! Brilliant work! I should think it deserves its place as a classic in the history of business books.
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Summary: Informative and essential to understanding the cybespace ind
Review: Wonder if the author is familiar with the works of James F. Wells, Ph.D., who uses similar methodology and comes to similar conclusions in the fields of History, Social-psychology, and human behavior in general.His bboks are "The Story of Stupidity" and "Understanding Stupidity".
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Summary: interesting ideas, too many examples
Review: Haven't finished reading the book yet because I can't!! The ideas good but there's too much about disk-drive industry. Author explains role of disruptive technologies and how and why successful organizations ignore them very well.
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Summary: Cogent analysis of the origin and impact of new technology
Review: This recognised classic can be read in many ways.In one sense, it makes a general point about the introduction of new technologies. It's certainly true that a new technology will often appeal to price- , convenience- or reliability- concious markets, before it performs well enough to enter mainstream applications. The Internet itself is an example of this kind of "disruptive" technology (cf Papow's Enterprise.com). Yet the book does more than make this point. It also analyses the effects of the arrival of new technology in several very different markets, and looks at how incumbents and new entrants responded. As one reads these vivid stories, impeccably researched, one can picture marketing departments scrambling, and CEOs evaluating their stock options. The narration of Honda's entry into the American motorbike market, familiar to any MBA student, is given an added twist, based on the perspectives of the people who did it. It is almost worth buying the book just for that story. Where it doesn't succeed so well - though it makes a valiant attempt - is in suggesting how companies might respond to the threat of cross-over technologies. This area might be helpfully expanded in future editions. Nevertheless, a must-read for anyone serious about modern business.
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Summary: A must read for everyone
Review: I think Mr. Christensen hits upon common sense more than anything else because to paraphrase as he says we become enslaved to way things get done. Like they say, a groove can become a rut. This book should force you to challenge yourself when making decisions about future products, planning, etc. The book was so captivating that I read it in one sitting on a Saturday. I plan to reread it many times though....
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