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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton Christensen

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Contents

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In Gratitude

Introduction

PART ONE: WHY GREAT COMPANIES CAN FAIL

1 How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry

2 Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate

3 Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry

4 What Goes Up, Can’t Go Down

PART TWO: MANAGING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

5 Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them

6 Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market

7 Discovering New and Emerging Markets

8 How to Appraise Your Organization’s Capabilities and Disabilities

9 Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle

10 Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study

11 The Dilemmas ...

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