11 quotes
It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
The Innovator's Dilemma (1997)
I think [the Vista fiasco] will allow [Apple] to survive for a bit longer.
Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.
Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation, into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.
Clayton M. Christensen (1999)
Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself — and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves.
Christensen (2011)
Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge. There is strong evidence showing that companies entering these emerging markets early have significant first-mover advantages over later entrants.
The Innovator's Dilemma (1997)
So the people using the Android operating system are now Motorola, Samsung, LG. And they are killing Apple: now, Android accounts for about 80 percent of the market.
Our findings support many of the conclusions of the resource dependence theorists, who contend that a firm's scope for strategic change is strongly bounded by the interests of external entities (customers, in this study) who provide the resources the firm needs to survive.
Clayton Christensen and Joseph L. Bower (1996)
The concept of the value network — the context within which a firm identifies and responds to customers' needs, solves problems, procures input, reacts to competitors, and strives for profit — is central to this synthesis.
The Innovator's Dilemma (1997)
[Descriptive research provides] an accurate description or picture of the status or characteristics of a situation or phenomenon.
Johnson & Christensen (2004)
Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team
Christensen (2011)