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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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IN GRATITUDE

I have spent much of the past decade puzzling over two questions. The first: It is easy to explain why poorly run companies fail; but many of history’s most successful and best-run firms have lost their positions of leadership, too. Why is it so hard to sustain success? The Innovator’s Dilemma summarized what I learned about this puzzle. It’s not just management mistakes that cause failure. Certain practices that are essential to a company’s success—like catering to the needs of your best customers and focusing investments where profitability is most attractive—can cause failure too.

The second centered on the opportunity in the dilemma: If I wanted to start a company that could become significant and successful and ultimately ...

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ISBN: 9781647829889