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What if Business Strength is Actually Its Weakness?

How to escape the Innovator's Dilemma in a world of systems and disruption

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Kevin Thomas Ryan
Nov 12, 2025
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What if Business Strength is Actually Its Weakness? - Escaping the Innovator's Dilemma

What if the very strategies that make a company successful can ultimately lead to its decline or even downfall? This sounds counterintuitive, a paradox even, but it is the very idea argued by the Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.

Christensen had shown that industry…

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