A review of the book "the innovator's Dilemma"

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The book “the innovator's Dilemma” was published twenty years ago, in 1997. The very rare occasion when time does not matter. The book is still relevant and the principles outlined by the author are working now.

He seeks to answer the question of why a stronger, better company losing its leading position in the market. Describes in detail the essence of “subversive” of innovation and explains how they affect the business.

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A Little about the author

Professor of business administration, educator, business consultant with the baggage Christensen at ease to write books about business, management, and efficiency. However, his education and business experience give us confidence that this author can be trusted.

Clayton graduated from Brigham young University, where he studied philosophy, and then for two years was a missionary in the Republic of Korea. The economy has studied at Oxford University and in 1979 received his MBA with high distinction from Harvard business school.

Christensen worked as a consultant and project Manager at the Boston Consulting Group. He continued his career in the White house as the assistant to the Minister of transport. One of the founders of CPS Technologies, he served as President and CEO. Left company to obtain a doctoral degree.

Christensen returned to Harvard, where in 1992 he defended his doctoral, and six years later, established a kind of “record”, receiving the title of Professor.

Now Christensen has eight honorary doctorates and honorary Professor in National Tsinghua University. The author of ten books, he is one of best-selling authors of books about business.

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Why book worth reading?

“the innovator's Dilemma”, Clayton Christensen reveals the fine line between “subversive” and supporting technology. Available and explains in detail the problems that lie behind innovation. For example, recent market leaders, talks about the reasons for the failures of the latter when entering a new market or trying to apply new technologies.

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The Author analyzes the causes of the ruin and failure of companies. He talks about the right, the correct handling of disruptive technologies that will lead to success and development. This is another value of the book “the innovator's Dilemma”. Clayton Christensen, with a wealth of experience in business administration, shares them with readers and explains the failure of various companies in the sphere of organization management.

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The Actual dilemma

To give depth to set out the concepts, to identify their usefulness for the application, Christensen “the innovator's Dilemma” divided into two parts. Anticipating General conclusions, he begins the book with in-depth analysis.

In the first part of the book describes a General scheme of failure, which explains why the right solution of the most talented managers can still lead to the collapse of the company. Christensen elaborates on the problem of innovation.

The First two chapters to restore in details the history of the industry of the hard drives. This industry is a perfect testing ground for the study of failures, as it is known, and it has “a quick history”. Entire market sectors have emerged and grown in a few years, but also fast and decayed.

The Third and fourth chapters explain in details why again and again, leading companies lost their primacy in the production of hard drives. The author talks about the factors contributing to this fall. And by the end of the first part represents a clear pattern of failure.

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The Principles “subversive” technology

In the second part of the book “the innovator's Dilemma" - from the fifth through the tenth Chapter, the author tries to justify the five laws of “subversive” technology. These principles are so strong that managers who ignore them or, conversely, trying to deal with them, you will not be able to confidently lead the company through the storm, which is called “subversive” technology.

Here, the author explains what success they will achieve, if you understand and begin to use these principles. Christensen writes that it is important to understand the essence of the problem and not look for her recipe. The book will help to find the best solution in the circumstances. But it is very important to understand how they developed, and what determines whether these decisions are correct.

In conclusion, the second part contains all of these laws and explains how managers can apply them in their situation or adapt to it.

Reader comments

When reading the book “the innovator's Dilemma” involuntarily come examples of “subversive” of innovation from life. In General, it shows that there is nothing eternal, everything is fast changing, especially in the field of digital technologies, and to predict the demand in the consumer market is very difficult. And it provides a prosperous existence of the company and its development.

Ultimately, everything depends on the consumer. And what are his preferences will be tomorrow, nobody knows, in fact this is the “innovator's Dilemma”. Reader feedback confirms that the principles presented in the book are applicable to almost any industry. Here you can find answers to questions about why there is a collapse of the business and what to do to be amongwinners.

With the advent of the Internet, a new “subversive” technology in various fields, so the book is now more relevant than ever.


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