Innovation: The Attacker's AdvantageIllustrates with examples from both old and new industries to explain how large, successful companies can lose their markets almost overnight to new, often small competitors armed with faster-developing technologies and better products. |
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Foreword by Robert H Waterman Jr | 15 |
Two The Age of Discontinuity | 45 |
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