Generally, the technology that enables disruption is developed in the companies that are the practitioners of the original technology. That's where the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The mistake managers often make is defining their industry too narrowly. Digital's market share in the minicomputer market stayed very robust even… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
History is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
