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Disruptive Innovation - Clayton Christensen (Part 2)

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What it is

Clayton Christensen explains disruptive innovation using the steel industry, showing how mini-mills beat incumbents from the low end. He argues disruption is not about stupid or bad management.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an amazing, clear explanation of why incumbents move upmarket and lose to low-end challengers.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “Clayton Christensen's amazing talk on Disruptive Innovation”

    Christensen explains the steel mini-mill disruption example

    dandare, 2014-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion”

  2. “Here's part of a great talk from Christensen describing the same logic but in the Steel industry”

    Christensen explains incumbents moving upmarket and losing to low-end challengers

    reqres, 2014-03 · Recommendation · in “The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean”

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Topics: clayton christensen, disruption, steel industry, innovator's dilemma, strategy

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