Books by author: Clayton M. Christensen

The Innovator's Dilemma

by Clayton M. Christensen

HarperBusiness (320 pages)
Keyword(s): Business, Nonfiction
Dates read: August 03 - October 03, 2005, Rating: ***

The Innovator's Dilemma examines the difference between sustaining and breakthrough technologies and attempts to explain why companies with good management tend to be good at exploiting the former and terrible at the latter. It goes on to explain how important it is for these same companies to figure out a way to get better at working with breakthrough technologies, lest they go out of business when start-ups steal their customers out from under them.

The presentation is a bit dull and repetitive, but there are some good points here that I would do well to understand as my career develops.