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The Innovator's Dilemma

Explains why successful companies can miss disruptive opportunities while serving their strongest current customers.

Key takeaways

  1. Good current-customer management can obscure disruption
  2. New markets follow different economics
  3. Separate exploration may be necessary

How to apply it in your business

  1. Track emerging low-end or new-market use cases
  2. Create small experiments outside core KPIs
  3. Protect a venture with distinct success criteria

About the author

Clayton Christensen was a Harvard professor known for his research on disruptive innovation.

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