The Disruption Dilemma by Joshua Gans

The Disruption Dilemma Reviews

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  Atila Iamarino

  Ouvi pensando que seria sobre as consequências do rompimento econômico na sociedade, mas é muito mais voltado para administração. Um livro sobre como empresas sobrevivem ou não ao rompimento causado por uma mudança de mercado forte (Kodak, IBM, etc.) e o que fazer em uma situação. Não achei ruim, é até bastante completo, mas não é de longe o que eu procurava.
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  Jeff

  A good update on Christenson’s Innovator’s Dilemma with numerous examples from recent history, including an account of how blackberry failed first to respond to the iPhone and then to the iPad.
  
  I struggle to articulate what really makes the distinction between “demand side” and “supply side” disruption, which Gans draws on throughout the book.
  
  But I was left with a sense that the challenge of responding to “disruptive” threats is really just the challenge of responding to any change that requires restructuring the organization.
  
  The other very useful lesson was how Christenson’s recommendation to respond to disruption with a special unit that is walled off from the main organization often doesn’t work and, in many cases, may be exactly the wrong thing to do.
  
  There is no silver bullet.
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  Berkay Erol

  I read this book to write a term paper for my innovation class. The paper was related to disruptive innovations, so I compared the ideas from The Disruption Dilemma with Clayton Christensen’s.
  One thing for sure: The author is really confident. He makes really bold statements related to the nature and origin of disruptive innovations. I really liked how he actually build his arguments and criticized Christensen on certain points.
  On the negative side, I believe he falls short in the conclusion part, where he had a good chance to persuade readers to believe closer integration strategy can be applied to demand-side disruptions. Yet, he failed to clearly demonstrate how companies can do so.
  Overall, it was an eye-opening book, which significantly broadened my horizons. I really appreciate the author’s academic career and his noticeable views on disruption theory.
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  Tobi Lawson

  Clay Christensen has more or less monopolized attributable credits on the phenomenon of disruption in business writing. This book restore some important balance. Rebecca Henderson is the unsung hero of this lovely book and she is underrated. Credits to economist Joshua Gans for this noble and needed book.
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  Rami

  If I have to describe this book is one world I would say ‘business’ of course it’s more than that. But it focus mostly on the business side of the life. Is if you are business student I would recommend this book
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  Dan

  For those at the c-suite determining how to manage potential disruption to their industry / business. Two stars because I'm not one of them so the information wasn't relevant to decision making.
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  Brad Revell

  I have read Joshua Gans' various blogs for many years now but never have I read any of his books; until now. The attraction to this book was the popular topic of disruption. Essentially Gans has authored a 'Disruption 2.0' book with an influence from Clayton Christensen's classic book 'The Innovator's Dilemma.' The Disruption Dilemma provides more of a peer reviewed journal approach to the topic of disruption with clear definitions, theories, citations and case studies.
  
  One of the areas of this book I liked was the detailed definition and concept of disruption. It is a term loosely thrown around in the IT industry given the rapid pace of change. Fundamentally, if you do not keep up with change then you're left in the dust! Gans delves into the concept of both supply and demand disruption and illustrates this with many case studies (e.g. Apple, Ford, New York Times etc.). As Henry Ford said years ago …. "if I had asked my customers what they had wanted, they would have said a faster horse."
  
  Suffice to say this is well worth the read if you want to get your head around disruption and what you can do to understand as well as mitigate the risk.
  
  Three key takeaways from the book:
  1. Disruption is associated with a new technological opportunity (known as a disruptive event) in which the incumbent may or may not take advantage of it. The failure of not being able to take advantage and not being able to recover is essentially when disruption actually occurs.
  2. Disruption theory tells us, at a minimum, that a company doubling down may be a bad idea. By contrast, the replacement effect suggests that 'doubling up' is a hard thing to do.
  3. Typically uncertainty occurs over whether an event is, in fact, disruptive, which gives rise to the dilemma facing established firms.
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  Chris Owen

  We constantly hear about the concept of disruption in business and many examples are cited about markets, industries and sectors that are being disrupted, such as Uber, AirBnB, the whole music industry through Apple Music and streaming services such as Spotify etc. The concept of disruption is rarely analysed or explained beyond these examples which are given. The value of this book from Joshua Gans is that he unpacks the concept and explains how it works. He analyses disruption from a demand side and a supply side perspective. He further explores how companies and organisations may be able to resist disruption. A very interesting book which explores the causes of disruption and which will be useful to readers trying to understand the forces of disruption which are affecting so many areas of life.
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  Adarsh Khare

  Anyone who read the Christensen's classic book "Innovator's Dilemma" should also read "Disruption Dilemma". In revisiting the disruption idea, Joshua actually refine the idea and put few good case studies to describe that not all disruptions are the same. Handling and understanding demand side disruption is easier than supply side disruption that require company to re architect not only the product but also the organization. Bottom line this book reiterates is change is eternal, those who have skills to adapt with change win in long terms.
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  Les Hopper

  If you're only going going to read one book on innovation theory and disruptive innovation, make sure it's this one.
  
  An up-to-date (at the time I am writing this review, early 2017) and balanced view of the role of disruptive innovation and how companies react.
  
  Despite being a relatively short book it manages to brilliantly summarise the other major works on the subject while also drawing its own conclusions.
  
  Recommended.
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  I-Chen Tsai

  所以本書雖然有分章節，但閱讀起來依然非常瑣碎，作者不太喜歡廢話，所以文字極為精鍊，加上為了挑戰這個學界的權威概念，只好大量使用商管名詞。這些都讓本書的閱讀變得不是很容易。
  
  作者雖然針對的是 Clayton Christensen 的「破壞性創新」，但用詞平和理性，不會過激，提到 Clayton 看錯的趨勢，也都引經據典告訴你，這是人家 Clayton 自己承認過的。所以這本書事實上獲得 Clayton Christensen 的推薦！
  
  但或許也因為這層顧慮，平和理性說事的書，不那麼精彩激情（人性喜歡看人對罵？XD）。
  
  我買的是 Kobo 版本，根據軟體統計，我讀了 1.8 小時完成，但分 23 次讀，每次平均讀 4.7 分鐘、10.9 頁。是一個幾乎過動的瑣碎閱讀狀態 XD
  
  
  https://i-chentsai.innovarad.tw/2017/...
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  Niels Philbert

  In many ways this is a companion book to the innovators dilemma. So make sure you have read that to get the most out of it. It has some really good points in regards to a lot of misconceptions around disruption. The format and presentation could be better and more interesting; it's a bit unexciting. Recommended on the basis of the broader insight into disruption, not because of the writing :-D
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  Klaus

  This is a must read for those interested in business innovation. It provides unique insights into disruption and raises many questions about how disruptive business events actually play out. It's a quick read as well.
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  Donn Lee

  Overall a good book bordering on really good. The only thing that I wasn't too much of a fan of was the fact that it references Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" as much as it does. It sometimes felt as if this book was more of a counter-argument to Christensen's theories than it was standalone.
  
  However, despite the constant reference to Christensen's theories, the new ideas that were introduced by Gans were good and made sense - it brought new perspectives as to the reasons for disruption. And for what it does, it does it well.
  
  But like the problem many business books have, I sometimes wonder whether or not we were trying to explain the unexplainable, attributing too little to the role of chance, and thinking we have far more control that we really do. Imagine if 80% of disruption were beyond anyone's or any business' control, and that at best whatever actions we took would help with that 20%.
  
  Knowing whether or not Christensen's or Gans' theories were "closer to the truth", then, would not really help that much, would it?