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There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.

~Clayton Christensen

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One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

~Clayton Christensen

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Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: America Bankrupt Because Books Care Cities City Companies Every Health Health Care Keep Kept Obligation Provide Taken Themselves Town Towns Way Would

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Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Advance Capital Companies Consequently Create Empowering Innovations Investments Long-Term More Need Require Tie Up Using Which World Years Years And Years

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While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology and healthcare companies than in other areas.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Area Certainly Companies Easy Entrepreneurs Find Funding Get Healthcare More More People Most Other Out People Say Technology Than While

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I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.

~Clayton Christensen

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Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'

~Clayton Christensen

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The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Book Companies Decisions Dilemma Explored Fail Innovator Making Paradox Right Situations Successful Wrong

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Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Companies Disruptive Fact Fight Groups In Fact Innovations Lose Often Organized Other Out Reason Resources Separate Set Specifically Suggest Teams Tend Up Why

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We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Action Because Come Common Companies Consensus Course Disruptive Found Hard Harness Innovation Language Need Seemingly Some Speak Suggested Them Ways

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