Big Bang Disruption, Paul Nunes
Big Bang Disruption, Paul Nunes
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Big Bang Disruption
Strategy in the Age of Devestating Innovation

Author: Paul Nunes, Larry Downes

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Unabridged: 9 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/07/2014


Synopsis

It used to take years or even decades for disruptive innovations to dethrone dominant products and services. But now any business can be devastated virtually overnight by something better and cheaper. How can executives protect themselves and harness the power of Big Bang Disruption? Just a few years ago, drivers happily spent more than $200 for a GPS unit. But as smartphones exploded in popularity, free navigation apps exceeded the performance of stand-alone devices. Eighteen months after the debut of the navigation apps, leading GPS manufacturers had lost 85 percent of their market value. Consumer electronics and computer makers have long struggled in a world of exponential technology improvements and short product life spans. But until recently, hotels, taxi services, doctors, and energy companies had little to fear from the information revolution. Those days are gone forever. Software-based products are replacing physical goods. And every service provider must compete with cloud-based tools that offer customers a better way to interact. Today, start-ups with minimal experience and no capital can unravel your strategy before you even begin to grasp what's happening. Never mind the "innovator's dilemma"-this is the innovator's disaster. And it's happening in nearly every industry. Worse, Big Bang Disruptors may not even see you as competition. They don't share your approach to customer service, and they're not sizing up your product line to offer better prices. You may simply be collateral damage in their efforts to win completely different markets. The good news is that any business can master the strategy of the start-ups. Larry Downes and Paul Nunes analyze the origins, economics, and anatomy of Big Bang Disruption. They identify four key stages of the new innovation life cycle, helping you spot potential disruptors in time. And they offer twelve rules for defending your markets, launching disruptors of your own, and getting out while there's still time. Based on extensive research by the Accenture Institute for High Performance and in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs, investors, and executives from more than thirty industries, Big Bang Disruption will arm you with strategies and insights to thrive in this brave new world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jose

This book is a must read to all CxOs and executives. The authors do a fantastic job to explain how disruption now can occur very rapidly, generating "creative destruction" faster than before (when the great Clayton Christensen wrote about the innovator's dilemma). I also liked the discussion about h......more

Goodreads review by Phil

Disclaimer: I received this book gratis via the authors' PR firm. I try to stay on top of important business books, especially those with emphases on technology, innovation, and disruption. To this end, I recently read Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Here's my revi......more

Goodreads review by Peter

The core of the book is great. Forget existing "rules" or "dogmas" like "crossing the chasm" etc > all that is old thinking. The book is about a new model called "the shark fin", with 4 stages: the singularity (no, not the one of Ray Kurzweil ;-), the big bang, the big crunch, and entropy. With for......more