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Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen

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American business scholar at Harvard Business School (1952 to 2020); author of The Innovator's Dilemma (1997) and Competing Against Luck (2016).

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  1. innovationcustomer demand

    As an innovator, spotting consumers who are struggling to resolve a Job to Be Done by cobbling together workarounds or compensating behaviors, as Kimberly-Clark did with Silhouettes, should cause your heart to beat a little faster.

    ↗Competing Against Luck (with Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan; HarperBusiness, 2016)archive.org

  2. innovationcustomer demand

    Markets that do not exist cannot be analyzed: Suppliers and customers must discover them together.

    ↗The Innovator's Dilemma (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)archive.org All 2 from this book

  3. humilityinnovation

    Not only are the market applications for disruptive technologies unknown at the time of their development, they are unknowable.

    ↗The Innovator's Dilemma (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)archive.org All 2 from this book