Top Pollster Gallup Is Jolted By The Innovator’s Dilemma

… Gallup’s troubles can be summed up in three words: the innovator’s dilemma. That term, coined by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, describes the sickness that ensues if you fixate on your high-end customers and ignore the market’s low end. Cheap, new methods seep in, eventually disrupting a whole industry. It happened in steel, retailing and computer storage. It’s happening again in survey research. [cont.]

George Anders, Forbes

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