من الكتب الرائعة
تتحدث عن كيف تبدأ الابتكارات الهدامة صغيرا
ثم تكتبر بالتدريج الى ان تكتسح المنافسة
مثلا، عندما بدأت سكايب
كان السوق منقادا بواسطة المسنجر الخاص بوندز
لكن سكايب كبر واكتسح المسنجر حتى اضطر مايكروسوفت إلى شرائها بمبلغ ٨ مليارات
الواتس اب أيضا اكتسح السوق صغيرا ايضا بشكل ابداعي ثم تحول بعدة سنوات الى اكبر برنامج للرسائل واشتراه فيس بك ب ١٦. مليار

ان اردت ان تعرف كيف يحدث ذلك، ولما لا يستجيب المنافسون بشكل جيد عادة ثم يخسرون بشكل مؤلم
وان اردت ان تعرف من اين عليك ان تكتسح السوق
فلا بد لك من قراءة هذا الكتاب

علما ان المؤلف هو من اكثر كتاب الادارة تاثيرا على مستوى العالم

I arranged for Dr. Clayton Christensen to speak at a luncheon for the BYU Management Society, a couple years ago, his presentation on distruptive technologies was fantastic, His books have proven to be equaly insighful.

There are useful patterns in this book. What you don't want to do is take any of this too literally because our industry is moving so quickly that the value is in the functiional patterns applied to your own system dynamic. You can put this on the list of books that help you develop foreknowledge.

Not worth time you spent to read it. Don't even open it.

To quote another review that mostly sums it up:
"The points made in this book about distinguishing signals from noise, positioning organizations for response to threats and opportunities and the challenges faced by organizations due to size and resource limitations all make good sense and come through, but the discussions of each theory of innovation are so excruciatingly dense that it became too much to focus my attention any longer." -Kent

You'll save yourself time by just reading http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-innovat...

There are some useful ideas, and it is nice to hear about some of the battles in areas/technologies that we take for granted today.

In some areas of the book you get lost in the alphabet soup of acronyms and abbreviations.

This is quite a long book to get through, and I cannot really say that it was worth it.
I got what I needed out of Innovator's Dilemma and Solution already.

Hace 10 años seguramente fue buenísimo, pero se le nota el paso del tiempo. Christensen no está equivocado, pero hay explicaciones mucho menos complejas para casos más actuales, usando prácticamente los mismos términos (esta observación aplica para todos sus libros).
Demasiado académico, pudiendo hacer las cosas más sencillas para el lector promedio ¿qué necesidad? Christensen hace reflexiones de casos (que como siempre es sólo observar el pasado) para concluir en que "todas las empresas son diferentes" y "lo que es innovador/disruptivo para unos puede no serlo para otros". Lo cual tristemente es cierto.

I am fascinated by any book written by Clayton Christensen. He has an interesting perspective on innovation and how it drives business strategy. If you like business and marketing and strategy, this is a must read

I'm likely not the businessman/investor type to read this book, but really enjoy Christensen's perspective and way of explaining processes and evolutions. He has authored a book that covers a great amount of breadth and depth in how to see and create ideas that will disrupt current practices. He covers a good blend of known and less familiar case studies to leave a lasting, memorable impression that I can apply in my own miniature business ideas. The fact that this was written in 2004 and so many of these topics are now the more pressing to our ecomony testifies of the insight the authors have.

I found it quite interesting reading this book about 10 years after it was published.
The first interest is in ascertaining the era that the concepts in the book are applicable to.
When exactly were the authors referring to when they said "Next"?
But far more than that is the validity of the theories they postulated in dealing with effects of innovative thinking and activities of innovators in the market and society at large.
I would say that from an ex-post view point that the theories are worthwhile and still relevant.
They are not all holy writ but good knowledge that can be applied under similar circumstances identified in the book.
I recommend this book to all those involved in the fast changing information and communication technology industry

Skip this book, read this paper instead:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4353.html

If there was a ChangeThis Manifesto for Clayton Christensen's Seeing What's Next, this post at Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge would be it. This paper explains why (but not using these exact examples) Net Neutrality should be allowed to exists, why RIAA/MPAA will die off, why NBC and Universal's Hulu service is destined to fail.

The content on "disruptive innovation" alone makes this book an absolute must-read for any forward-thinking businessman, whether you're a manager or investor. On top of that, the discussions on spotting industry change and analyzing competitive battles between two firms in an industry, make the book an invaluable asset.

The book "Seeing whats next" explains how to make decisions by predicting what could happen in any industry by using the data of how and why things happened in the past. This is explained by describing the advancements and the failures happened in Telecommunications, Semi-Conductors, Education, Healthcare and Aviation. This is the 3rd book in this series followed by Innovators dilemma and Innovators solutions. The take-away for me are "Why and when to target Under shot customers, Over shot customers & Non users" and the concept of identifying where a company stands in "Motivation ability framework".