Disruptive Innovation: The Christensen Collection (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, The Innovator's DNA, and Harvard Business Review article "How Will You Measure Your Life?") (4 Items)

Disruptive Innovation: The Christensen Collection (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, The Innovator's DNA, and Harvard Business Review article "How Will You Measure Your Life?") (4 Items)

by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen
Released July 2011
Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 9781422189986

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Book description

Clayton Christensen’s definitive works on innovation—offered together for the first time

Will you fall victim to disruptive innovation—or become a disruptor yourself? Tip the odds in your favor with the bestselling books that have made Christensen one of the world’s foremost authorities on innovation. You’ll also get his award-winning HBR article, full of inspiration for finding meaning and happiness in your life using the principles of business.

The 4-volume collection includes:

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
In one of the most influential business books of our time, Christensen introduced the world to the concept of disruptive innovation, showing how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market leadership. Don’t repeat their mistakes.

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Citing in-depth research and theories tested in hundreds of companies across many industries, Christensen and co-author Michael Raynor provide the tools organizations need to become disruptors themselves.

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
Christensen and coauthors Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen identify behaviors of the world’s best innovators—from leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Skype, and the Virgin Group—to show how you and your team can unlock the code to generating and executing more innovative ideas.

“How Will You Measure Your Life?” (HBR article)
At Harvard Business School, Clayton Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. But he also believes that these models can help people lead better lives. In this award-winning Harvard Business Review article, he explains how, exploring questions everyone needs to ask: How can I be happy in my career? How can I be sure that my relationship with my family is an enduring source of happiness? And how can I live my life with integrity?

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. How Will You Measure Your Life?
    1. Idea in Brief
    2. How Will You Measure Your Life?
  3. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
    1. Copyright
    2. Contents
    3. In Gratitude
    4. Introduction
    5. Part One
    6. CHAPTER ONE How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry
    7. CHAPTER TWO Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate
    8. CHAPTER THREE Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry
    9. CHAPTER FOUR What Goes Up, Can’t Go Down
    10. Part Two
    11. CHAPTER FIVE Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them
    12. CHAPTER SIX Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market
    13. CHAPTER SEVEN Discovering New and Emerging Markets
    14. CHAPTER EIGHT How to Appraise Your Organization’s Capabilities and Disabilities
    15. CHAPTER NINE Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle
    16. CHAPTER TEN Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study
    17. CHAPTER ELEVEN The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary
    18. The Innovator’s Dilemma Book Group Guide
    19. About the Author
  4. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
    1. Copyright
    2. Contents
    3. IN GRATITUDE
    4. CHAPTER ONE THE GROWTH IMPERATIVE
    5. CHAPTER TWO HOW CAN WE BEAT OUR MOST POWERFUL COMPETITORS?
    6. CHAPTER THREE WHAT PRODUCTS WILL CUSTOMERS WANT TO BUY?
    7. CHAPTER FOUR WHO ARE THE BEST CUSTOMERS FOR OUR PRODUCTS?
    8. CHAPTER FIVE GETTING THE SCOPE OF THE BUSINESS RIGHT
    9. CHAPTER SIX HOW TO AVOID COMMODITIZATION
    10. CHAPTER SEVEN IS YOUR ORGANIZATION CAPABLE OF DISRUPTIVE GROWTH?
    11. CHAPTER EIGHT MANAGING THE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
    12. CHAPTER NINE THERE IS GOOD MONEY AND THERE IS BAD MONEY
    13. CHAPTER TEN THE ROLE OF SENIOR EXECUTIVES IN LEADING NEW GROWTH
    14. EPILOGUE PASSING THE BATON
    15. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  5. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
    1. Copyright
    2. Contents
    3. Introduction
    4. PART ONE Disruptive Innovation Starts with You
    5. 1 The DNA of Disruptive Innovators
    6. 2 Discovery Skill #1: Associating
    7. 3 Discovery Skill #2: Questioning
    8. 4 Discovery Skill #3: Observing
    9. 5 Discovery Skill #4: Networking
    10. 6 Discovery Skill #5: Experimenting
    11. PART TWO The DNA of Disruptive Organizations and Teams
    12. 7 The DNA of the World’s Most Innovative Companies
    13. 8 Putting the Innovator’s DNA into Practice: People
    14. 9 Putting the Innovator’s DNA into Practice Processes
    15. 10 Putting the Innovator’s DNA into Practice: Philosophies
    16. Appendix A: Sample of Innovators Interviewed
    17. Appendix B: The Innovator’s DNA Research Methods
    18. Appendix C: Developing Discovery Skills
    19. Notes
      1. Introduction
      2. Chapter 1
      3. Chapter 2
      4. Chapter 3
      5. Chapter 4
      6. Chapter 5
      7. Chapter 6
      8. Chapter 7
      9. Chapter 8
      10. Chapter 9
      11. Chapter 10
      12. Appendix C
    20. Acknowledgments
    21. About the Authors

Product information

  • Title: Disruptive Innovation: The Christensen Collection (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, The Innovator's DNA, and Harvard Business Review article "How Will You Measure Your Life?") (4 Items)
  • Author(s): Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen
  • Release date: July 2011
  • Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
  • ISBN: 9781422189986