In a large successful company where your power base as CEO…

The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive…

— Clayton Christensen

A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category; the Internet…

— Clayton Christensen

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost…

— Clayton Christensen

Another thing I've observed is how critical the role of the CEO is when a technology truly is disruptive. In looking back on companies…

— Clayton Christensen

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

— Clayton Christensen

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive.…

— Clayton Christensen

The personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have a computer…

— Clayton Christensen

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been…

— Clayton Christensen

By the time it becomes obvious that a technology will have truly disruptive impact, it is often too late to take action. This is…

— Clayton Christensen

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate…

— Clayton Christensen

Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In our teaching…

— Clayton Christensen

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

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

HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so…

— Eric Ries

I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what…

— Patrick Lencioni