books by Clayton M. Christensen     books:       The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth62 reviews Harvard Business Press, 2003 Indispensable Insight into Entrepreneurial Growth This was required reading for an MBA Entrepreneurial Growth class. It quickly became the reference to almost every case that we discusssed. It is one of the best books I've ever read. It completely opened my eyes to a new world. It addresses some of the fundamental questions of an entrepreneur. How can a new business beat the reigning behemoths in an industry? How can the reigning behemoths ...             Innovation and the General Manager1 review Clayton M. Christensen McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 1999 Great Title on Innovation An excellent piece of work for readers on innovation and market dynamics. Interesting case studies. The Instructor's manual is also a great substitute: ASIN: 0073659169             The Innovator's Dilemma (Ch 8): How to Appraise Your Organization's Capabilities and Disabilities (30-minute ... Harvard Business School Press, 2010 Organizations, independent of the people and other resources in them, have capabilities. This chapter outlines three classes of factors that affect an organization's capabilities: resources, process, and values. The successful organization must develop or acquire the capability to embrace and respond successfully to change.This chapter was originally published as chapter 8 of "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to ...             The Innovator's Prescription : A Disruptive Solution for Health Care32 reviews, ... McGraw-Hill, 2008 Must Read This book is a must read for anyone in the life or health science field. Highly comprehensive and provides great insight into the current health care system and how it could change.             The Innovator's Dilemma1 review Clayton M. Christensen Perseus Distribution Services, 1997 Excellent Insights! Christensen writes about the failure of good, well-managed companies to stay atop their industries when they are confronted by certain types of disruptive market and technological change. This has happened in industries that move fast and those that move slow, and in manufacturing and service industries. Companies that fell prey to these disruptive changes include Sears, IBM, DEC, Xerox, and ...             The Innovator's Dilemma (Ch 11): The Dilemmas of Innovation (30-minute read) Harvard Business School Press, 2010 The chapter summarizes, at a very high level, why and how new capabilities must be developed in organizations faced with rapid technological change. Though the vast majority of innovation challenges companies will face are sustaining in nature, some are disruptive--and successfully addressing those will require different skills, approaches, and strategies.This chapter was originally published as chapter 11 of "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New ...             The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail181 reviews Harvard Business Press, 1997 Great Book This book confirmed a lot of things I have long suspected about how company's approach change. I have in my life witnessed a number of them fail for not handling distruptive technology correctly.             Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things (Harvard Business Review ... Clayton M. Christensen Harvard Business Press, 2010 In this seminal article, innovation experts Clayton Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih explore the key reasons why companies struggle to innovate. The authors uncover common mistakes companies make--from focusing on the wrong customers to choosing the wrong products to develop--that can derail innovation efforts, and offer a better way forward for management teams who want to avoid these obstacles and get innovation right.             Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change24 reviews, ... Harvard Business Press, 2004 Book-End for Prahalad's Fortune at the Bottom The primary author's first two books were each sensational in their own way--.I was particularly gripped by his description of the throw-away camara as being unattractive to the high-end camara shops, but when adopted by grocery stores, led to the 90% of the non-consumers of high-end camaras getting into photography. The key: low-cost offering for the non-consumers introduced outside the ...             Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)1 review Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Overdorf Harvard Business Review, 2000 Framework to develop new capabilities in organizations Clayton Christensen is Harvard Business School professor and author of bestseller 'The Innovator's Dilemma', and Michael Overdorf is a Dean's Research Fellow at Harvard Business School. Even before the Internet and globalization, the track record of managers for dealing with major, disruptive change was not good. According to the authors managers can see the disruptive change coming, but they ...             Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care? Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2000 It's no secret that health care delivery is convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to consumers. But what is less obvious is that a way out of this crisis exists. Just as the PC replaced the mainframe and the telephone replaced the telegraph operator, disruptive innovations are changing the landscape of health care. Nurse practitioners, general practitioners, and even patients can do things in less-expensive, decentralized ...             Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)3 reviews Joseph L. Bower, Clayton M. Christensen Harvard Business Review, 2000 Great Insights A fast way to learn a bit about disruptive technologies.             The Innovator's Dilemma Abridged on 2 CDs in Box Clayton (Author) M. Christensen Highbridge, 2001 Great companies can failnot because they do anything wrong, but because they do everything right. Meeting customers' current needs leads firms to reject breakthrough innovations-"disruptive technologies" that create the products and opportunities of the future. Radical thinking . . . and a wake-up call. Citing examples from many industries (computers, retailing, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, steel), Clayton M. Christensen explains how to avoid ...             The Tools of Cooperation and Change (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) Clayton M. Christensen, Matthew Marx, ... Harvard Business Review, 2006 Employers can choose from lots of tools when they want to encourage employees to work together toward a new corporate goal. One of the rarest managerial skills is the ability to understand which tools will work in a given situation and which will misfire. Cooperation tools fall into four major categories: power, management, leadership, and culture. Choosing the right tool, say the authors, requires assessing the organization along two critical ...             The Innovator's Dilemma (Ch 10): Managing Disruptive Technological Change--A Case Study (30-minute read) Harvard Business School Press, 2010 Using the case study format, this chapter illustrates how managers can succeed when faced with disruptive technology change. Written from the point of view of a hypothetical employee of a major automaker faced with the challenge of developing and commercializing an electric vehicle.This chapter was originally published as chapter 10 of "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail."             Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation9 reviews Robert A. Burgelman, Clayton M. Christensen, ... McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2008 Good Text Book Good book for the subject... contains articles and case studies. Highly recommend if you are into this subject.             Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook, ... Harvard Business Review, 2005 Ted Levitt used to tell his Harvard Business School students, "People don't want a quarter-inch drill--they want a quarter-inch hole." But 35 years later, marketers are still thinking in terms of products and ever-finer demographic segments. The structure of a market, as seen from customers' point of view, is very simple. When people need to get a job done, they hire a product or service to do it for them. The marketer's task is to understand ...             Customer-Driven Innovation (HBR Article Collection) Lance A. Bettencourt, Anthony W. Ulwick, ... Harvard Business Review, 2008 Ninety percent of newly launched consumer products languish on store shelves. Why? Many companies develop supposedly innovative offerings by defining a statistically average customer "type" and then envisioning products that will satisfy that type. But human beings don't behave like statistical averages. So, most new offerings aren't meeting real people's needs. To correct the problem, innovate from real people's perspective--by determining what ...             Making Strategy: Learning by Doing Clayton M. Christensen Harvard Business Review, 1997 Companies find it difficult to change strategy for many reasons, but one stands out: Strategic thinking is not a core managerial competence at most companies. Managers are unable to develop competence in strategic thinking because they do it so rarely. Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen helps managers develop a creative strategy and a proficiency in strategic decision making. This article presents a three-stage method ...             The Innovator's Dilemma : When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (The Management of Innovation and ...1 review Clayton M. Christensen Harvard Business School Press, 1997 Outstanding Insights! Christensen writes about the failure of good, well-managed companies to stay atop their industries when they are confronted by certain types of disruptive market and technological change. 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