The Disruption Dilemma

Name: The Disruption Dilemma
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Joshua Gans
ISBN: 9781515975106

Author: Joshua Gans

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 5 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/05/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Synopsis

Almost twenty years ago Clayton Christensen popularized the term disruption in his book The Innovator's Dilemma, describing it as a set of risks that established firms face. Since then, few have closely examined his account. Joshua Gans does so in this book. He looks at companies that have proven resilient and those that have fallen, and explains why some companies have successfully managed disruption while others have not. Departing from the conventional wisdom, Gans identifies two kinds of disruption: demand-side, when successful firms focus on their main customers and underestimate market entrants with innovations that target niche demands; and supply-side, when firms focused on developing existing competencies become incapable of developing new ones.

Gans describes the full range of actions business leaders can take to deal with each type of disruption, from "self-disrupting" independent internal units to tightly integrated product development. But therein lies the disruption dilemma: A firm cannot practice both independence and integration at once. Gans shows business leaders how to choose their strategy so their firms can deal with disruption while continuing to innovate.

About Joshua Gans

Joshua Gans is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and professor of strategic management at Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He is chief economist of the Creative Destruction Lab, department editor (strategy) at Management Science, and cofounder and managing director of Core Economic Research.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Atila on March 02, 2017

Ouvi pensando que seria sobre as consequências do rompimento econômico na sociedade, mas é muito mais voltado para administração. Um livro sobre como empresas sobrevivem ou não ao rompimento causado por uma mudança de mercado forte (Kodak, IBM, etc.) e o que fazer em uma situação. Não achei ruim, é......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on March 01, 2020

A good update on Christenson’s Innovator’s Dilemma with numerous examples from recent history, including an account of how blackberry failed first to respond to the iPhone and then to the iPad. I struggle to articulate what really makes the distinction between “demand side” and “supply side” disrupt......more

Goodreads review by Berkay on February 12, 2021

I read this book to write a term paper for my innovation class. The paper was related to disruptive innovations, so I compared the ideas from The Disruption Dilemma with Clayton Christensen’s. One thing for sure: The author is really confident. He makes really bold statements related to the nature a......more

Goodreads review by Tobi on July 13, 2019

Clay Christensen has more or less monopolized attributable credits on the phenomenon of disruption in business writing. This book restore some important balance. Rebecca Henderson is the unsung hero of this lovely book and she is underrated. Credits to economist Joshua Gans for this noble and needed......more

Goodreads review by Rami on January 26, 2020

If I have to describe this book is one world I would say ‘business’ of course it’s more than that. But it focus mostly on the business side of the life. Is if you are business student I would recommend this book......more