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Where will your future competition come from?

In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen talks about the threats that come to existing businesses from innovation.

Innovations could be anything from the telephone (which displaced telegraphs), to mini-steel mills (which displaced larger steel mills), to word processors (which displaced type writers), to digital photography (which displaced chemical film), to computer aided drafting (which displaced hand drawn designing), to blogging (which displaced print newspapers), to anything else.

The graph below summarizes the findings of The Innovator’s Dilemma.