Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We all have jobs in our lives that we must get done. We reach out and bring products into our lives to… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
When product performance outstrips the ability of customers to use that performance in an industry, the competitive game changes. Under those circumstances… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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 Image
What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
