innovator's dilemma
nameEtymology
Described in the 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma by American business consultant Clayton Christensen.
Definitions
The observation that well-established companies tend to concentrate on improving existing…
The observation that well-established companies tend to concentrate on improving existing products, leaving them vulnerable to new competitors and disruptive technologies.
- Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma."
- The generous reading of all this is that recent films and their creators became victims, essentially, of the innovator's dilemma: They got too good at obeying their own, once-successful formulas—and failed to see beyond them.
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