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List Price: $35.00Amazon.com's Price: $23.10 You Save: $11.90 (34%)as of 03/18/2010 00:57 EDT
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780875845852
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0875845851
Label: Harvard Business Press
Manufacturer: Harvard Business Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: May 01, 1997
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Studio: Harvard Business Press
Features:- ISBN13: 9780875845852
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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What do the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and hydraulic excavators have in common? They are all examples of disruptive technologies that helped to redefine the competitive landscape of their respective markets. These products did not come about as the result of successful companies carrying out sound business practices in established markets. In The Innovator's Dilemma, author Clayton M. Christensen shows how these and other products cut into the low end of the marketplace and eventually evolved to displace high-end competitors and their reigning technologies.
At the heart of The Innovator's Dilemma is how a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat. Christensen writes that even the best-managed companies, in spite of their attention to customers and continual investment in new technology, are susceptible to failure no matter what the industry, be it hard drives or consumer retailing. Succinct and clearly written, The Innovator's Dilemma is an important book that belongs on every manager's bookshelf. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards
Product Description:
Taking the radical position that great companies can fail precisely because they excel at the commonly accepted practices of good management, this work demonstrates why outstanding companies like Xerox, IBM, Sears and DEC had their competitive antennae up, listened to customers, and invested aggressively in new technologies, and still lost their positions of market dominance. And it shows companies today how they can avoid a similar fate.
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this is a little wordier than needs to be. I think his point could be simplified and more direct.
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book was recommended to me from a credible source. though I haven't read it yet, it looks like it will be a good one.
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I really enjoyed this book and other titles by Christensen. Of his writings this is definitely the place to start.
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Every person intimately involved in any organization should read this book.
This book changed most management thinking and many organizational structures of corporate America. It should change more. This book should be required reading for anyone involved or studying profit and non-profit organizations.
If you have 5 books on your management shelf, this should be one of them.
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The Innovator's Dilemma is a unique approach to understanding corporate failure. Christiansen's thesis is that well managed companies with all the best processes in place do fail. The failure is not due to inefficiency, bad management or bad processes but due to companies being responsible in terms of listening to their customers, investing in technologies that their customers' demand and rationally allocating resources to high-margin products. Christiansen argues that these investments are made ... Read More
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