The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. Clayton M. Christensen closefactorfamily Change image and share on social
Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket. Clayton M. Christensen bottomcompetedisrupt share on social
From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful. Clayton M. Christensen classdaydecide share on social
In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know. Clayton M. Christensen decideemployerfind share on social
One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend. Clayton M. Christensen banecommitcompany Change image and share on social
There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. Clayton M. Christensen affectcapitalefficiency Change image and share on social
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business. Clayton M. Christensen breakthroughbusinessfundamental Change image and share on social
Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. Clayton M. Christensen emergefunctiongreat Change image and share on social
A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry. Clayton M. Christensen businessdisruptiveestablish share on social
By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. Clayton M. Christensen bigbodycausality Change image and share on social