Data Quotes by Clayton Christensen

8 Data quotes by Clayton Christensen

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Christensen’s take on data ties directly to his theory of disruption. These eight quotes give a quick look at how he believes information can reshape markets and challenge the status quo.

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But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off…

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

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“…I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of…

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If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and…

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How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to…

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How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

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If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why…

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The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only…

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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.…

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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…

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A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.

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Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

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The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on…

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What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

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I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments…

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Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort…

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At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people…

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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…

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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…

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