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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 658.4063 EAN: 9781578518524 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1578518520 Label: Harvard Business School Press Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2003-09 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Studio: Harvard Business School Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The Growth Paradox At best one company in ten is able to sustain profitable growth. Yet capital markets demand that all companies seek it relentlessly and mercilessly punish those who fail. Why is consistent, persistent growth so difficult to achieve? Surprisingly, it’s not for lack of great ideas or capable managers, nor is it because customers are too fickle or innovation too unpredictable. Innovation fails, say Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor, because organizations unwittingly strip the disruptive potential from new ideas before they ever see the light of day. In his worldwide bestseller The Innovator’s Dilemma, Christensen explained how industry leaders get blindsided by disruptive innovations precisely because they focus too closely on their most profitable customers and businesses. The Innovator’s Solution shows how companies get to the other side of this dilemma, creating disruptions rather than being destroyed by them. Drawing on years of in-depth research and illustrated by company examples across many industries, Christensen and Raynor argue that innovation can be a predictable process that delivers sustainable, profitable growth. They identify the forces that cause managers to make bad decisions as they package and shape new ideas—and offer new frameworks to help managers create the right conditions, at the right time, for a disruption to succeed. The Innovator’s Solution addresses a wide range of issues, including: • How can we tell if an idea has disruptive potential? • Which competitive situations favor incumbents, and which favor entrants? • Which customer segments are primed to embrace a new offering? • Which activities should we outsource, and which should we keep in-house? • How should we structure and fund a new venture? • How do we choose the right managers to lead it? • How can we position ourselves where profits will be made in the future? Revealing counterintuitive insights that will change your perspective on innovation forever, this landmark book shows how to create a disruptive growth engine that fuels ongoing success. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Innovator's Solution ReviewThis is another Masterpiece from Clayton Christensen, one of the acknowledged opinion leader on Innovation. This 2nd book is a MUST READ for those who have read his first book, "Innovator's Dilemma". This 2nd book provides several good case studies and information on how business growth can be and should be sustained and how to create the necessary growth potential. Once you are done with this book, continue to to read on another of Clayton's book known as Seeing What's Next. Steven Lim (RSTN) ... Read More Rating:  - Iwant answers, not problems?I assume you're interested in this book because it's a shortcut: we hear that a business can be undermined by [initially] unattractive innovations, aka the innovator's dilemma. But what do we do about it? The answer is to create those innovations, of course. The proposal is to create small business units, since the initial returns will be small, then make sure they rapidly become _profitable_. Even better, create a new market instead of improving an existing product. A crappy sounding ... Read More Rating: - the real thingAs CEO of LMS Technical for 28 years, my use of books to help me plan, sustain and improve my business has been a priority. Introduced to this book by my daughter who is presently a student of Christensen, I was skeptical that a "Harvard" read would be too far off the track for a small consulting firm like ours. WRONG! For the past two months, the application of his core beliefs had led our firm to re-direct our postioning and re-think our 2 year goals. A major disruption of delivery of IT network support ... Read More Rating: - Disruptive Innovations Key to Spicing Up CompetitionClayton Christensen and Michael Raynor set the tone immediately by showing that most companies cannot sustain growth and by explaining to readers how stock markets factor in growth in the price of any publicly-traded stock. Growing faster than what stock markets see now and expect in the future is essential to move up a stock price. The resource allocation process is the key culprit in humbling many market leaders when dealing with disruptive innovations. That process typically invites up-market ... Read More Rating: - Motivation assymetriesAlready a business classic, this book does not disappoint. Picking up from where the 'Innovator's Dilemma' left off, Christensen and Raynor examine in detail the barriers towards innovation and growth. Perhaps surprisingly, the concepts discussed are as applicable to large enterprises as they are to one man startups. The problem is one and the same - enterprise readers will learn about the pitfalls of institutionalized processes and sustaining innovation; startup teams will learn how to position their products ... Read More 
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