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9780066620695

Innovator's Dilemma : When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

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    9780066620695

  • ISBN10:

    0066620694

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-04-13
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

Demonstrates a shattering paradox: The best of conventional good business practices can ultimately weaken a great firm and there is a certain type of technological innovation the author labels disruptive technology, which mainstream customers initially reject. Softcover.

Table of Contents

In Gratitude vii
Introduction ix
PART ONE: WHY GREAT COMPANIES CAN FAIL 1(96)
How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry
3(26)
Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate
29(32)
Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry
61(16)
What Goes Up, Can't Go Down
77(20)
PART TWO: MANAGING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE 97(134)
Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them
101(20)
Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market
121(22)
Discovering New and Emerging Markets
143(18)
How to Appraise Your Organization's Capabilities and Disabilities
161(22)
Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle
183(22)
Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study
205(20)
The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary
225(6)
The Innovator's Dilemma Book Group Guide 231(8)
Index 239(14)
About the Author 253

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