I was gifted this book by a very good friend. At first, it was to help me prepare for a job interview. But after awhile, I realized that it wasn’t just another Innovator’s “INSERT BUZZWORD HERE” book. Instead, it was a revolutionary approach to entrepreneurship, whether you’re building something from scratch, or internally within an existing company.

Worth reading for the insights but is a bit dated at this point -- also would have liked to see more tangible data in the case studies

Sound theories but I did not find it all that engaging personally.

Painfully insightful. One would do well to keep a little Christensen angel on their shoulder.

Worthy of re-reads.

A good book as an extension to The Innovator's Dilemma. The content can feel a little bit out of touch or dated but it's still a very good read enhancing the ideas in innovator's dilemma and shed some light on how to empower growth as a company manager/executive.

A truly thought-provoking business book about how to make innovation work in all companies. However brilliant the content, it is written in a very formal style, and is hard to read.

Details: Back by excellent research and detailed analysis this book explains how some companies succeed with innovation and why some fail. Using case studies the authors delve into what makes companies successfully innovate and comes up with some surprising rules around organizational structure.

However, this is written too much like an academic treatise and I think it would be too dense for most readers.

The Takeaway: Wonderful ideas but takes some effort.

Jobs to be done theory. "People dont want a quarter inch drill, they want a quater inch hole". Milk shake case. Segmentin by traditional metrics might reduce adressable market, blinds you to emerging competitors and causes improvements to your product that are irrelevant to customers.

Concepts of low end (making products that are good enough to meet needs of currently overserved customers using a sustaining lowe cost business model) and new market disruption (making products that target customers who are currently not buying anything because existing offerings are too expensive, complex or inconvinient - target non consumption).

In new market disruption, be impatiant for profits, but patient for growth.

It defines the 21st century marketplace ... innovate or die. For years, Japanese dominance of technology was predicated entirely on efficiency and cost-cutting. Without innovation however, effectiveness and market share decline proportionally.

Simply a must read. Christensen distills frameworks for growth and innovation within a business and explains theory-based predictive tools. One of the most well thought out books and one I wish I read years earlier.

This book is almost like “How to do the impossible” because just like the Author is famous for stating out that big corporations can NOT reinvent themselves and disrupt the field :) But in this book he does think of all the different issues that need to be solved TO take on such a task. But yes, it’s quite impossible as I understand to have ALL those issues covered. But yes, You could try :)
I myself am a starting company so I have all the freedom to disrupt how every I like :D And disrupt I will. Watch out, Microsoft and Facebook :)

I found The Innovator’s Dilemma an eye-opener, and this book didn’t disappoint either. The first part of the book recaps the ideas from the previous book, before moving on to the solutions. So, if you had to read just one book, this will be it.

The solution to sustainable growth, according to the authors, is to leverage disruptive innovation by tackling 9 questions (paraphrased):
1. How to beat your top competitors?
2. What products will customers buy?
3. Who are the best customers for our product?
4. Which activities should we do inhouse or outsource?
5. How can we avoid being commoditized?
6. What's the best organizational structure to adopt?
7. How do we develop the best strategies?
8. How should we fund the innovation?
9. What's the CEO's ideal role?

And the book is devoted to answering these questions, with many examples and case studies (some quite dated from the previous book, but also some recent ones + the authors' predictions on certain ongoing industry shifts).

Why not 5*?
(1) The academic style of writing makes it hard to grasp or digest the idea at times. I'm glad I've read the first book, without which I may struggle even more with some of the parts here.
(2) There were still many gaps in the so-called solutions. No doubt the authors explained these are theories to be tested, and there's no "proven formula" yet. Still it could still have been clearer or more precise. e.g. the recommendations for new team structure weren’t that clear (e.g. lightweight teams and functional teams were not properly defined or differentiated)

Still, a great book especially considering the relatively complex topic being discussed. One of the better business strategy books I've read

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It took me a while, but worth finally persevering to the end. This isn't your typical business book, with a few nice aphorisms and over and done with in a couple of hours. No, this is a tightly argued guide to repeated disruptive innovation. And its not easy, in fact, Christensen even admits that he knows of only a handful of businesses that have achieved it, and a large part of their success came from the influence of their founders. The suggestions he makes does, however, suggest an explanation for why so few businesses have managed it - it is incredibly difficult, and involves winning at two very different strategies simultaneously. On the good side, it suggests some ways to possibly escape the dilemma, on the bad for me side, disruption is a lot more likely to come from outsiders rather than incumbents, no matter how clear it is that the industry is in the middle o a shake down.