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It would better for people such as Christensen to call themselves "business historians." They make ex post facto analyses of what made a business successful. Th
by thoward 11y ago
It would better for people such as Christensen to call themselves "business historians." They make ex post facto analyses of what made a business successful. There's value to that, and it often makes for very interesting reading especially if you can incorporate all the personal drama.
To purport that you've come up a theory of business success with predictive power is another thing entirely.
- ThomPete 11y agoI would agree if we were talking about many other people than Christensen. His insights are invaluable even though they might need to be updated.
- hodgesrm 11y agoThe Innovators Dilemma is still completely relevant and has substantial predictive power today. I'm seeing it in spades in my current company. The problem is in fact not predictive power but deciding how to avoid being trapped by it--Innovators Dilemma is weak on actionable solutions. I have not read the follow-in Innovators Solution but doubt it really solves the problem in anything like a general way. The trouble is that new markets are basically very uncertain. Big companies like Disney, Apple, or Boeing that have crossed into new markets executed successfully on bet-the-company products. Not everybody pulls it off.