Strategy framework

Disruptive Innovation

Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School

Where a smaller rival enters below you and climbs. Sustaining innovation serves your best customers; disruption starts with the ones you are happy to lose, or with people who were never customers at all.

What it asks

Your position in the market

Which segments this business owns today, and how it is defended.

Sustaining innovation underway

Better products sold at higher prices to the best existing customers.

Where the offer overshoots

Performance customers are paying for but do not use. The opening below.

Low-end disruption risk

Who could enter cheaply at the bottom and take the least profitable segment, and with what business model.

New-market disruption risk

Who could serve people who consume nothing today, creating a new segment.

How to respond

What to do about it, being honest about what the current cost structure will and will not allow.

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