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03 · Innovation and Industrial Transformation

The Innovator’s Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Katalyx INTERPRETATIONFOUNDATIONAL

THE Katalyx PERSPECTIVE

The dilemma is structural, not managerial incompetence. Existing customers, margins and processes can rationally steer leaders away from the future.

If this author were designing a national economy instead, what would they do?

FIVE TAKEAWAYS

01

Good management can still fail

02

Disruption begins at the margin

03

New markets need new metrics

04

Capabilities can become constraints

05

Timing matters more than perfection

Katalyx APPLICATION

Ring-fence emerging businesses with different economics, customers, talent and performance measures.

Katalyx RATING

Strategic Thinking

Systems Thinking

Practical Application

Long-Term Relevance

Clarity

ONE PROVOCATIVE QUESTION

Which future market looks unattractive only because today’s metrics cannot see it?

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