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The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
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The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton Christensen
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 51m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Appendix B

The Innovator’s DNA Research Methods

 

Our research project consisted of two phases: (1) an inductive study of innovators compared with noninnovators, and (2) a large sample study comparison of roughly eighty innovators and roughly four hundred noninnovator executives (we later expanded this to a larger sample). We conducted exploratory interviews with a sample of roughly thirty innovative entrepreneurs and a similar number of senior executives in larger organizations (see a subsample of innovators we interviewed in appendix A). The goal of our interviews with innovators was to understand when and how they personally came up with creative ideas on which they built new innovative businesses. We asked questions such as:

  1. What was the ...
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