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The Innovator's Dilemma

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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, first published in 1997, is the best-known work of the Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen. It expands on the concept of disruptive technologies, a term he coined in a 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave". It describes how large incumbent companies lose market share by listening to their customers and providing what appears to be the highest-value products, but new companies that serve low-value customers with poorly developed technology can improve that technology incrementally until it is good enough to quickly take market share from established business. Christensen recommends that large companies maintain small, nimble divisions that attempt to replicate this phenomenon internally to avoid being blindsided and overtaken by startup competitors.

The Innovator's Dilemma - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1997 book by Clayton M. Christensen The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Author Clayton Christensen Language English Genre Business theory Publisher Harvard Business Review Press; 1st edition (May 1, 1997) Publication date 1997 ; 29 years ago ( 1997 ) Publication place United States ISBN 0875845851 Followed by The Innovator's Solution Website www .claytonchristensen .com /books /the-innovators-dilemma The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to F

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