{"id":28014,"date":"2020-02-03T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28014"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:52:18","slug":"clayton-christensen-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/clayton-christensen-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Clayton Christensen, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tad Walch<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation<\/a> made him a key influence on Silicon Valley powerhouses like Netflix and Intel and twice earned him the title of the world’s most influential living management thinker<\/a>, died Jan. 23 at age 67.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Christensen introduced disruptive innovation in the Harvard Business Review in 1995<\/a>, but the theory and the term burst into the public consciousness in 1997 when he published “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.” Soon afterward, Intel CEO Andy Grove stood up with a copy of the book at COMDEX in Las Vegas and declared it the most important book he’d read in a decade. The two men appeared together on the cover of Forbes magazine<\/a> in 1999 — and both Christensen and the business world were changed forever.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Grove told Christensen he mislabeled his theory. Instead of innovative technologies, Grove suggested, Christensen should have used “crummy technologies.”<\/p>\n

“A disruptive innovation looks inferior,” Gilbert said, “but only to the incumbent organizations. Then it opens up the ability to consume something that never would have been possible without the innovation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

See also: Efosa Ojomo<\/a>, Tren Griffin<\/a> (tweet<\/a>), Exponent<\/a> and The Talk Show<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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