{"id":30,"date":"2005-10-27T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2005\/10\/why-good-companies-fail.html"},"modified":"2005-10-27T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:01:00","slug":"why-good-companies-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/why-good-companies-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why good companies fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT Conversations has a fascinating podcast by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itconversations.com\/shows\/detail135.html\">Clayton  Christensen<\/a>, the Harvard Business School professor and author of the  best-selling book <em>The Innovator&#8217;s Dilemma. <\/em>Speaking at the Open Source  Business Conference 2004, Christensen explains why well-managed companies with  superior products are sometimes beaten by startups with inferior products. The  basic reason: if the product is &#8220;good enough&#8221; for a large group of customers who  didn&#8217;t have access to that kind of functionality before, the customers will  adopt it and stay with it while the product improves rather than go with the  expensive, over-engineered alternatives from the industry leaders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-body\">The  PC, of course, is the best example of this. But it applies to so many tech  innovations: LANs, PDAs, cell phones, open source&#8230;.When you think of it, none  of those products were particularly good at the outset but people loved them  because they could do something that they couldn&#8217;t have done before. And they  stuck with them while they matured.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the podcast. It&#8217;s great.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT Conversations has a fascinating podcast by Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor and author of the best-selling book The Innovator&#8217;s Dilemma. Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference 2004, Christensen explains why well-managed companies with superior products are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/why-good-companies-fail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}