The Innovator’s Solution

by Jeroen de Miranda

This is perhaps the best book on innovation!

Examples of disruptive IT innovation are (IMO):

• Google, Amazon Lead Disruptive Cloud Computing Wave, Microsoft Again Behind Curve
• Newspapers Beware: Blogs are A Disruptive Technology

I can much better understand these disruptive innovations after having read this book!

From Newspapers Beware: Blogs are A Disruptive Technology – some key factors are:

• ‘print publishing has overshot the needs of the market’
• ‘Sure, the new versions aren’t as high quality (fact-checking, writing, spelling, design), but they get the job done’
• ‘And eventually, the old model will have lost so many customers that it will no longer be able to support itself.’

At the website of the authors Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor you can find some ready to use ideas and templates to shape new disruptive innovation ideas:

1. A Template for Shaping Disruptive Ideas :

• Target nonconsumption
• Leverage the low performance hurdle
• Make it “foolproof.”
• Lock in and take over

2. A Game Plan for Would-Be Disruptors : How to Turn the Innovator’s Dilemma into the Innovator’s Solution

More information on innovation at:

• More books on innovation:  (for accessing this list, you have to create an account at librarything.com)
• Site of Authors Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor

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