Christensen & Raynor Chapter 2

Question 1

What are some ways to predict the outcome of competitive fights?

Question 2

What does happen when innovations are incremental with the firms and the entrants?

Question 3

Which two distinct categories does the innovators dilemma identify>

Question 4

What are the three critical elements of disruption?

Question 5

Why does a company whose products are squarely positioned on mainstream customers’ current needs today will overshoot what those customers are able to utilize in the future?

Question 6

What is a sustaining innovation?

Question 7

Why do established competitors almost always win the battles of sustaining technologies>

Question 8

What do disruptive innovations do in contrast to sustaining innovations?

Question 9

What are the benefits of disruptive innovations in comparison to sustaining innnovations?

Question 10

What is the improvement cycle>?

Question 11

What is asymmetric motivation?

Question 12

What is the innovator’s dilemma that rational managers face>

Question 13

Why does disruption work>

Question 14

What is the source of the innovations dilemma?

Question 15

What does the theory of disruption suggest>?

Question 16

When can sustaining-technology strategy be a viable way to build new growth businesses?

Question 17

What does disruption is a relative term mean?

Question 18

What is a valuable growth asset from the disruptiv business model?

Question 19

What happens when a company tries to take a higher-cost business model down-market?

Question 20

What must good managers do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healty?

Question 21

How does every company prepare the way for its own disruption?

Question 22

What should executives do to create new-growth businesses?

Question 23

What are the horizontal and vertical axes in the disruption diagram

Question 24

What is a value network/

Question 25

What does the third dimension illustrate?

Question 26

What are new-market disruptions?

Question 27

What are low-end disruptions?

Question 28

How do new-market disruptions compete with nonconsumption?

Question 29

What is the new-market disruptors challenge?

Question 30

How does the the disruptive innovation not invade the mainstream market?

Question 31

Why do the incumbent leaders not feel any pain until the final stages of the disruption?

Question 32

What are low-end disruptions?

Question 33

What are the similarities and differences between mew-market and low-end disruptions?

Question 34

How are many disruptions hybrids?

Question 35

How is disruption an ongoing force?

Question 36

What are tje 3 different sets of questions that executives must answer?

Question 37

What does the second set explore?

Question 37

What do the first set of questions explore?

Question 37

What does the third set explore

Answer 37

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