The Innovator 's Dilemm Clayton Christensen

Over the years, technology has become a major part for a business and for an individual as well. Technology has become so advance that it has made a major effect for the staff as well as for the customers. New technology has helped in many areas such as data and information storage, advertising, transportation and communication.

The article “When Giants Fail - What Business has learned from Clayton Christensen” has revolved around a simple question “Why is a success so difficult to sustain”? He explained how big and rich companies at the peak of their power one year and a few years later they will be struggling.

Change is rarely, if ever, an easy process, especially within an organization. The term “technology” has been used by economists, managers, consultants, and business analysts to describe machinery and equipment

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t is a research study that looks into the internal steps and practices that good companies used to transition to greatness. The book focuses on answering the question of what makes some companies move to being great and what keeps others at good. Jim Collins, the author, is a business consultant and lecturer on company sustainability and growth. Collins focused his book’s research about the clear distinctions in transitional companies, also investigating why similar companies with the same opportunities and resources weren’t able to simulate the same success. The book overall helps understand how corporate leadership, culture, and strategy has an impact on overall success;

In today’s dynamic market, technology plays a critical role in the success of a business (Hirschey,

Throughout history there have been many successful companies as well as companies that have been a debacle. The success of the company has to do with the management and how it executes its strategy. If the management is ineffective, the company will most likely fail; however, if the company has good management it is more likely to prosper. There are many responsibilities that a manager must complete, chief among them are the four functions of management are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling (PowerPoint). In order for the company to be successful the management must fulfill all four functions. In some case not all four functions are met to expectation, with the results that the company to be not as successful as it could be if they

Year 2002 saw an unprecedented number of corporate scandals: Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing, etc. In many ways, WorldCom is just another case of failed corporate governance, accounting abuses, and outright greed. Many people may question if there is a secret to operating a successful business in modern times. Some may argue that success is based on being at the right place at the right time with the right idea and the right amount of money. Other may debate that success is based on hard work and ethics that are accompanied by many failed attempts before

Tyco International Ltd is a diverse manufacturer who grew tremendously in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. The company had big ambitions with an aggressive program of acquisitions during this period where they spent an estimated $62 billion to purchase more than 1,000 companies. However, unbeknownst to the shareholders of Tyco and the world, Tyco was led by a management team and CEO (L. Dennis Kozlowski) that did not use wise or truthful business practices and organizational behavior. In the following paper, I will examine the failure that occurred at Tyco, compare, and contrast contributions of leadership, management,

There are many issues in this case study that overlap each other throughout the process of developing the product for DataVast Inc., developed by founding Winston Hao. He is the creator and founder of this company but as we all know developing a company isn’t as easy as it may seem when you invest time, money and energy for company that begins to face turmoil. The difficulties that Mr. Hao face is trying to re improve and modify original cloud storage product that stored large quantities of digital data, The big issue was that even though they were ready to send out there newly modified product was who would be their target. This was just the beginning of many problem in this journey. This company tackled there

Technology is acknowledged to be changing at a rapid pace. The pace of change creates opportunity as well as challenge to ensure appropriate investment in being made in up-to-date technology, which allows an organization to out-pace or, at least, keep up with their competition. Technology has the capacity to impact methods of manufacturing as well as logistics, delivery or distribution of goods. Driving innovation via the use of new technology, competitive advantage can be gained by lowering the cost of manufacturing products while also providing speed to market, ahead of the competition.

From this case study, it showed how Lehman Brothers walked down to the end of it business. Through Lehman Brothers’ case, it reflects the ugly side of a corporate. A big recognized company collapse due to it unsuccessful leadership management, culture and dishonesty by it people caused the company walked down to the end of it business. There are several points showed how it gone bankrupted.

The technological community is evolving at a rapid pace, generating change within the entire economy and forcing the other domains and sectors to also develop alongside. Within its internal context, the technological field is a highly complex one, not only due to the complexity of the innovations, but also due to the implications they generate, such as ongoing change, the need to integrate the innovations for multiple benefits or the competition intensified by the technology.

The technological environment leads to new products and services and improve how they are produced and delivered to the end user. Innovations can create entirely new industries and alter the boundaries of existing industries.

The world had a technology boom in the nineties. However, there was a technology but in the decade 2000. Companies that were using technology to gain competitive advantage over their players in the industry may now have to look for other sources of competitive advantage.

Innovation of the all in one printers which can fax, print, copy and scan act as disruptive technology it replaced the previous way of doing things where an individual have to have each of the product on the table and this is virtualization as disruptive technology.