What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

There’s no question Clayton Christensen, who developed the theory of disruption, is Silicon Valley’s favorite business school professor. For me, diving deep into his thinking in a corporate innovation class was a breath of fresh air from management theory that explained all of corporate America but for its most successful company – Apple. It’s Apple, though, that has long been Christensen’s bugaboo: Q: Can Apple keep it up? Christensen: I don’t think so. Look at any industry — not just computers and MP3 players. You also see it in aircrafts and software, and medical devices, and over and over. During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn’t yet adequate to meet customer’s needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution — because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way. But once the technology matures and becomes good enough, industry standards emerge. That leads to the standardization of inter

What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong Sunday, September 22, 2013 There’s no question Clayton Christensen , who developed the theory of disruption, is Silicon Valley’s favorite business school professor. For me, diving deep into his thinking in a corporate innovation class was a breath of fresh air from management theory that explained all of corporate America but for its most successful company – Apple. It’s Apple, though, that has long been Christensen’s bugaboo: In a January 2006

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