The Innovator's Dilemma, with a New Foreword: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Few business books have earned their reputation as thoroughly as this one. Clayton Christensen's classic study of disruptive innovation has been cited by the Economist as one of the six most important business books ever written, landed a place in Fast Company's Leadership Hall of Fame, and has influenced figures ranging from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. That's a serious pedigree. But the ideas inside more than justify the fuss. Christensen's central argument is both simple and unsettling: a company can do virtually everything correctly, follow best practices, listen to its customers, and still find itself overtaken. Why? Because the very habits that make firms successful in the short term can quietly make them blind to the next wave of change. It's a paradox worth sitting with. Updated with a foreword from Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff, the book draws on real examples of companies that thrived or stumbled when new technologies shifted the ground beneath them. Christensen uses these cases to build a practical framework, offering managers concrete guidance on when to hold firm and when to let go of established ways of working. The writing is sharp and purposeful, never padded. Whether you're running a start-up or steering a long-established organisation, this book has a habit of making you question assumptions you didn't even know you were carrying.
- Author: Clayton M. Christensen
- Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
- Genre: Entrepreneurship
- ISBN: 978-1647826765
- Pages: 320 pages