THE VIDEO SHELF · disruptive innovation
Disruptive Innovation - Clayton Christensen (Part 2)
Clayton Christensen explains disruptive innovation using the steel industry, showing how mini-mills beat incumbents from the low end. He argues disruption is not about stupid or bad management.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an amazing, clear explanation of why incumbents move upmarket and lose to low-end challengers.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- modplanman
- Topic
- disruptive innovation
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2017
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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It immediately reminded me of the mini-mills example from Clayton Christensen's amazing talk on Disruptive Innovation [VIDEO]
dandare on Hacker News · 2014-01
In Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 BillionThe logic you present is correct from the incumbent's perspective. But followed to its logical conclusion, it leads to the downfall of the incumbent according to Christensen's model of disruptive innovation. The incumbents will continually cater upmarket to their higher value customers while the challenger …
reqres on Hacker News · 2014-03
In The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean
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