Dilemma and Solutions

Author: Clayton M. Christensen et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: 2004 Heavyweight Business Management Book! The original paper of this book, Disruptive Technologies: The Path of Waves, was awarded as a foundational work in management history by Harvard Business Review! The New York Times 2004 January Best Seller List; #8 in "Business Category," #15 in March; Harvard Business School Press 2003 Best Business Management Book. A classic masterpiece 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 enterprise growth. Many peak-time corporate giants have suffered setbacks due to entering the wrong new innovation fields. These companies did what people thought good companies should do—focus on pleasing those customers who bring them the biggest profits—but they paved a path to their own demise, finally being replaced by obscure small companies. Why is this the case? How to break through the bottleneck of enterprise growth and innovation? Why do efforts to pursue new growth lead to corporate disintegration? This puzzle was called the "Alexander Problem" by management master Chris Zook. How to get out of this innovative dilemma and find a way out is a major issue that every entrepreneur and manager must face. The authors of this book, Clayton M. Christensen, are dual professors of Technology and Operations Management and Comprehensive Management at Harvard Business School, and Michael E. Raynor is the Director of the Deloitte Research Institute at the global renowned consulting firm Deloitte. After more than ten years of dedicated research, the two authors analyzed hundreds of famous companies' success and failure cases, and finally developed a method to solve the "Alexander Problem."