This is an enhanced edition of the HBR article 95103, originally published in January/February 1995. HBR OnPoint Articles save you time by enhancing an original Harvard Business Review article with an overview that draws out the main points and an annotated bibliography that points you to related resources. This enables you to scan, absorb, and share the management insights with others. One of the most consistent patterns in business is the failure of leading companies to stay at the top of their industries when technologies or markets change. Why is it that established companies invest aggressively--and successfully--in the technologies necessary to retain their current customers but then fail to make the technological investments that customers of the future will demand? The fundamental reason is that leading companies succumb to one of the most popular, and valuable, management dogmas: they stay close to their customers. To remain at the top of their industries, managers must first be able to spot disruptive technologies. To pursue these technologies, managers must protect them from the processes and incentives that are geared to serving mainstream customers. And the only way to do that is to create organizations that are completely independent of the mainstream business.
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Disruptive Technologies?:
This negatively based book is geared towards industries and business that have failed to take automatic, proactive steps towards incorporating technology. Focused on marginal, american-based corporations that do not adequately plan for such common events as technological impact, the attempt is to persuade that new advances are 1) Predictable, 2) Quantifiable or measureable and 3) Going to accomplish what they claim they can accomplish. That none of these elements are true after several decades of... more info
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