Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of a business model. The first two decades of digital computing were characterized by the huge mainframe computers that filled a whole room, and they had to be operated by PhD Computer Scientists. It took the engineers at IBM about four years to design these mainframe computers because there were no rules. It was an intuitive art and just by trial and error and experimentation they would evolve to a computer that worked.
Clayton ChristensenLets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.
Clayton ChristensenAlmost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
Clayton ChristensenChristine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
Clayton ChristensenHistory is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root as a toy, got Digital Equipment Corporation. Kodak missed the boat for a long time on digital imaging. Sony was slow to get MP3 technology. Microsoft doesn't know what to do with open source software. And so on.
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