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Change that can kill off great, well‐run companies

The Antidote

ISSN: 1363-8483

Article publication date: 1 December 2000

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Abstract

Profiles two types of technological change — sustaining and disruptive. Employs an inset of definitions explaining technology, innovation, sustaining technologies and disruptive technologies. States a lack of understanding about the strategic difference between sustaining and disruptive technologies can result in a crucial failure. Further insets shows Hewlett‐Packard’s laser jet and ink‐jet printers as a prime example of how to cope with disruptive technology, even if it threatens suicide for its original business division. Sums up firms are rarely in a position to have the correct organizational, managerial or cultural response to enable them to cope successfully with changes generated by disruptive technologies.

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Kippenberger, T. (2000), "Change that can kill off great, well‐run companies", The Antidote, Vol. 5 No. 7, pp. 12-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006872

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MCB UP Ltd

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