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The Disruptive Innovation Set (2 Books)
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The Disruptive Innovation Set (2 Books)

by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
608 pages
17h 4m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER THREE Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry

Excavators and their steam shovel predecessors are huge pieces of capital equipment sold to excavation contractors. While few observers consider this a fast-moving, technologically dynamic industry, it has points in common with the disk drive industry: Over its history, leading firms have successfully adopted a series of sustaining innovations, both incremental and radical, in components and architecture, but almost the entire population of mechanical shovel manufacturers was wiped out by a disruptive technology—hydraulics—that the leaders’ customers and their economic structure had caused them initially to ignore. Although in disk drives such invasions of ...

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ISBN: 9781647829889