The king of disrupting

摘要

There is at least one corporate honour greater than making it onto the very short list of firms that Clay Christensen of Harvard Business School, author of "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "The Innovator's Solution", considers "serial disruptors" of established industries. And that is staying on the list. Sony, for instance, was probably the most fearsome disruptor ever, but only between 1955 and 1982, when "its engine of disruption got shut down," as Mr Christensen puts it. Something similar could be said about IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, and Eastman Kodak, and arguably also about Cisco and Intel. The one firm already on the list that seems to have a fair chance of staying on it is the least glamorous of the lot-a software firm in Silicon Valley called Intuit.