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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
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Sales rank 61,001
Customers rating (based on 186 reviews)
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Taking the radical position that great companies can fail precisely because they excel at the commonly accepted practices of good management, this work demonstrates why outstanding companies like Xerox, IBM, Sears and DEC had their competitive antennae up, listened to customers, and invested aggressively in new technologies, and still lost their positions of market dominance. And it shows companies today how they can avoid a similar fate.
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| Publisher | Harvard Business Press | | Release date | 05/1997 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
| | List price | $35 | | Our price | $23.1 (you save 34.00%) | | Used price | from $0.27 |
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 Great book
If you are involved with any disruptive technology, you need to read this book.
If you run a large established company, you need to read this book.
Everybody else just needs to read the summary at the end.
A Classic
Lots of good assessments in other reviews, but I'll share my take nonetheless. I'm the CEO of a relatively small software firm, and this book as helped us make the right decisions through two significant technology transitions in our industry (since I first read it in 2004). There are a handful of books that I've read that I can't imagine what would've happened to our company had I not read them; this is one of them. Required reading for our key staff.
 Plenty in here if heavy going at times
A very detailed book however it is now perhaps becoming a little dated. I felt that it also dwelt a little bit too much in the raw data rather than providing analysis of the results as well as direction. That said however the book is certainly a worthwhile read for anyone in business as it covers a rather unique topics that I don't remember seeing elsewhere.
The major topic around disruptive technologies and their impact is truly a fascinating study and some of the conclusion are very much unexpected. However, given the details contained in the book it is not something that can be read lightly and briefly, you really need to dedicate some serious study time to receive all the benefits it has to offer.
 Great observations
I tend to judge business books by whether, as a CEO of a company, I learn something that I can apply to my company to make it better, and in this case, there was a lot of useful material. The book fundamentally asks what makes superbly run companies fail in the face of disruptive change, and how to avoid these failures. It debunks the idea that failures, such as DEC, were driven by shortsightedness or bad management, and instead looks at the overall structure in which they failed and why, leading to an examination of how disruptive changes impact organizations.
The book is filled with case studies and is an interesting read, and I walked away with many ideas about how to think through some of the issues that face my company... a disruptive player... and how to keep leveraging disruption. Thus, since I found things in the book that I am directly applying, I give it high marks.
The only negative thing for me, besides a somewhat weaker concluding chapter, is that by using the fast moving hard drive industry as the core study, the book would benefit from updating since many of the companies discussed and technologies discussed have gone through further disruptive changes.
Regardless, definitely worthwhile reading for any business team leader.
NOTHING NEW HERE.
Nothing in this book is new. People will buy your mousetrap till a better/cheaper mousetrap comes along. Management's attitude is always: Dont fix it if it aint broke.
The text is poorly written perfesserese cluttered with charts and graphs.
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