Following in the footsteps of Christensen, I hope we can get rid of the “innovator’s dilemma” as soon as possible

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tribute to the father of disruptive innovation: the best memory is to inherit

Clayton M. Christensen, known as the” Master of Innovation “on January 23, 2020 He died at the age of 67 due to ineffective medical treatment.

As the founder and founder of “disruptive innovation” theory, Professor Christensen has twice been selected as the world’s most influential living management thinker.

Many entrepreneurs, including well-known technology giants such as Bill Gates, Jobs, Bezos, have said that they have been deeply affected by his disruptive innovation theory.

The best we remember of Professor Ke is inheritance.

Professor Li Shanyou, founder of Chaos University, expressed his respect to Professor Christensen in the article “Top Wisdom Applications”:

Thank Christensen for the subversive innovation theory he put forward, so that scientific and technological innovation is no longer an indispensable ornament, but a necessity for survival, no innovation, and inevitable death.

He made us understand that a mature company always seems to lead the industry when facing breakthrough technological innovation, but it often loses its leading position in the face of low-end disruptive innovation.

It’s not that better technology than the giant overturns the giant, but worse technology than the giant defeats it.

Here, Chaos University will open the “Disruptive Innovation” special course offered by Professor Li Shanyou at the School of Innovation for free for everyone to experience and learn.

And today’s sharing, Chao Chaojun selected Professor Li Shanyou’sA systematic explanation of Professor Christensen’s disruptive innovation theory, one of the important insights is-

It’s not that better technology than the giant overturns the giant, but worse technology than the giant defeats it.

At the moment, this slightly fatalistic view is no longer just a prophecy, but a fact that is happening. I hope you can experience a new flavor today.

What exactly upended the giant?

Few startups enter uninhabited places.

Most start-ups face this question: How to compete with the existing giants?

The answer lies in Christensen’s “disruptive innovation” theory.

Generally speaking, the technology curve is an S-curve. The so-called continuous innovation of technology is to continuously improve the original product performance along the technology curve and become better under the existing values ​​and KPI standards. It is usually targeted at mainstream consumers in the mainstream market.
To pay tribute to the father of disruptive innovation: the best nostalgia is to pass on Importantly, there are two second curves with different properties:

①Forward discontinuity ②Reverse discontinuity To pay tribute to the father of disruptive innovation: the best memory is to inherit

Before Christensen, the mainstream ideology defaulted that the curve above is better and it was a breakthrough technological innovation, but Christensen The insight is-

Mature companies always seem to lead the industry when they face breakthrough technological innovation (forward discontinuity), but they often lose when facing low-end disruptive innovation (reverse discontinuity) Its leading position in the industry.

That is, only reverse discontinuities are disruptive.

It’s not that better technology than the giant overturns the giant, but worse technology than the giant defeats it.

And this