How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma

hype7 writes "With yesterday's release of the Steve Jobs biography, a raft of interesting information has come to light — including Jobs' favorite books. There's one book there listed as 'profoundly moving' to Jobs — The Innovator's Dilemma by innovation professor Clayton Christensen. The book explains how in the pursuit of profit, good managers leave their companies open to disruption. There's an interesting article over at the Harvard Business Review that explains how disruption works, and how Jobs managed to solve the dilemma by focusing Apple on products rather than profit."

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Copy it

[Intropy]

When someone innovates, copy it, make it really shiny, market it extensively, and sell it at a large markup.

Cue the haters

[bonch]

Cue the Apple haters who can't stand an Apple story on the front page of Slashdot. They've been bitching and moaning all week.

Apple's focus on product was obvious when they introduced the iPod nano to replace the iPod mini at the height of the iPod mini's popularity. Few other companies would have stopped selling one of their most successful products or changed the product's name.