Seeing What's Next

In this summary you will learn

• How to use theories about sustaining innovations and disruptive innovations to assess the future of innovation in your industry
• How disruptive innovations move up the market chain and affect it
• What strategic decisions confront innovative industries
• Which markets are ripe for disruption

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Why you should read Seeing What's Next

Clayton M. Christensen’s first book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, was a work of impressive insight and originality. His second, The Innovator’s Solution, was somewhat less insightful but added a necessary extension to the first by telling readers how they might begin to extricate themselves from the dilemma of industry disruption caused by an upstart innovation. The current book is a dense, harder to read compilation of the first two books, with added theoretical insights. Christensen and co-authors Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth tell readers how to use theories of innovation to predict change. getAbstract.com applauds the effort. Don’t miss the helpful appendix that summarizes the previous two books.

About the Authors

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Scott D. Anthony is a partner at Innosight LLC. Erik A. Roth is a consultant in McKinsey & Company’s Boston office.