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Where Disruptive Innovation Came From

Harvard Business Review

Disruptors adopt a new technology and target a market segment that doesn’t matter to incumbents, then ride improvements in the technology to expand into established players’ core customer base. In 1995, Christensen and Joe Bower published the article that introduced the notion of disruptive technology.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Strategy, it follows for Porter, is a matter of working out your company’s best position relative not just to pricing pressures from rivals but to all the forces in your competitive environment. When these forces are weak, as in software and soft drinks, many companies are profitable.