A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. — 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… — 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
At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
By the time it becomes obvious that a technology will have truly disruptive impact, it is often too late to take action.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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
If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
People still cling to this belief that innovation is just random and unpredictable. But if you look closely, there are some real… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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
Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering.… — 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 personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The innovations are far more important because the technology itself has now way to impact the world for good until it's embedded… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology… — 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
Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Quite often startups were first out of the gate with a sustaining technology. But somehow the leaders got the technology and stayed… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Another thing I've observed is how critical the role of the CEO is when a technology truly is disruptive. In looking back… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the… — 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
