Dilemmas and Solutions: How Businesses Can Formulate Disruptive Growth Strategies: How Businesses Can Formulate Disruptive Growth Strategies

Author: Clayton M. Christensen
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: 2004 Heavyweight Business Management Book! The original paper of this book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, was awarded as a foundational work in the history of management by Harvard Business Review! The New York Times Best Seller List in January 2004; #8 in "Business," #15 in March; Harvard Business School Press's Best Business Book of 2003. A classic work suitable for the realities of Chinese enterprises, solving the problems of entrepreneurs' anxiety! Sticking to core competencies and developing new competitive fields has always been the biggest puzzle of corporate growth. Many peak-time corporate giants have suffered setbacks due to entering the wrong new innovation fields, despite doing what people think good companies should do—focusing on pleasing those who bring them the biggest profits—and paved a path to their own demise, finally being replaced by obscure small companies. Why is this? How to break through the bottleneck of corporate growth and innovation? Why do efforts to pursue new growth lead to corporate disintegration? This puzzle is known as the "Alexander Problem" by management guru Chris Zook. How to get out of this innovation dilemma and find a way out is a major issue that every entrepreneur and manager must face. The author of this book, Clayton M. Christensen, is a dual professor of Technology and Management and General Management at Harvard Business School. Michael E. Raynor is the Director of the Deloitte Research Institute at the global renowned consulting firm Deloitte. After over ten years of dedicated research, the two authors analyzed the cases of hundreds of famous companies' successes and failures, finally developing a method to solve the "Alexander Problem."