Christensen, Clayton

Christensen, Clayton. 1997. The Innovator s Dilemma When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Cambridge, MA Harvard Business School Press. 

Christensen, Clayton M., The law of conservation of attractive profits, Harvard Business Review, Febmary 2004, pp. 17-18. 

According to Clayton Christensen,2 businesses are often hit by sneak attacks from new technologies they do not expect. These new technologies threaten to make some company research obsolete. Connections to universities can help industrial scientists be prepared for some of these technological attacks. 

Robert L. Lichter, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation I found your notion of disequilibrium intriguing. There was a book published in 1997 called The Innovator s Dilemma, by Harvard business school professor Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press), which offers similar ideas in the context of technical innovation. He discusses the concept of disruptive technologies, the notion that real change is made when new concepts actually challenge existing views of what is useful and important. I can see connections there with your points. 

Existing customers do not appreciate new developments Clayton M. Christensen The Innovator s Dilemma, Harvard Business School Press 1997. 

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and coauthors articulated the JTBD concept in a Sloan Management Review article (Spring 2007) as follows Most companies segment their markets by customer demographics or product characteristics and differentiate their offerings by adding features and functions. But the consumer has a different view of the... 

Christensen-Dalsgaard J (2001) Europhys News 32 229 Clayton DD (1984) Principles of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago... 

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