Book description
Will you fall victim to disruptive innovationor 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 rightyet 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 innovatorsfrom leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Skype, and the Virgin Groupto 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
- Contents
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
-
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
- Copyright
- Contents
- In Gratitude
- Introduction
- Part One
- CHAPTER ONE How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry
- CHAPTER TWO Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate
- CHAPTER THREE Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry
- CHAPTER FOUR What Goes Up, Can’t Go Down
- Part Two
- CHAPTER FIVE Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them
- CHAPTER SIX Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market
- CHAPTER SEVEN Discovering New and Emerging Markets
- CHAPTER EIGHT How to Appraise Your Organization’s Capabilities and Disabilities
- CHAPTER NINE Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle
- CHAPTER TEN Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study
- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary
- The Innovator’s Dilemma Book Group Guide
- About the Author
-
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
- Copyright
- Contents
- IN GRATITUDE
- CHAPTER ONE THE GROWTH IMPERATIVE
- CHAPTER TWO HOW CAN WE BEAT OUR MOST POWERFUL COMPETITORS?
- CHAPTER THREE WHAT PRODUCTS WILL CUSTOMERS WANT TO BUY?
- CHAPTER FOUR WHO ARE THE BEST CUSTOMERS FOR OUR PRODUCTS?
- CHAPTER FIVE GETTING THE SCOPE OF THE BUSINESS RIGHT
- CHAPTER SIX HOW TO AVOID COMMODITIZATION
- CHAPTER SEVEN IS YOUR ORGANIZATION CAPABLE OF DISRUPTIVE GROWTH?
- CHAPTER EIGHT MANAGING THE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
- CHAPTER NINE THERE IS GOOD MONEY AND THERE IS BAD MONEY
- CHAPTER TEN THE ROLE OF SENIOR EXECUTIVES IN LEADING NEW GROWTH
- EPILOGUE PASSING THE BATON
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE Disruptive Innovation Starts with You
- 1 The DNA of Disruptive Innovators
- 2 Discovery Skill #1: Associating
- 3 Discovery Skill #2: Questioning
- 4 Discovery Skill #3: Observing
- 5 Discovery Skill #4: Networking
- 6 Discovery Skill #5: Experimenting
- PART TWO The DNA of Disruptive Organizations and Teams
- 7 The DNA of the World’s Most Innovative Companies
- 8 Putting the Innovator’s DNA into Practice: People
- 9 Putting the Innovator’s DNA into Practice Processes
- 10 Putting the Innovator’s DNA into Practice: Philosophies
- Appendix A: Sample of Innovators Interviewed
- Appendix B: The Innovator’s DNA Research Methods
- Appendix C: Developing Discovery Skills
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- 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):
- Release date: July 2011
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781422189986
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