Richard N. Foster

ThinkersBorn 1941Management consultant

Works

  • Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage, 1986

In Thinking Tools

Known for

A McKinsey director, he argued that a technology's performance improves along an S-curve, slowly, then quickly, then slowly again as it nears its limits, and that incumbents lose to attackers who move early to the next curve. The book is a practitioner's synthesis drawn from McKinsey's client work.

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