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The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets—now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing

In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle—which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards—there is a vast chasm between the early adopters and the early majority. While early adopters are willing to sacrifice for the advantage of being first, the early majority waits until they know that the technology actually offers improvements in productivity. The challenge for innovators and marketers is to narrow this chasm and ultimately accelerate adoption across every segment.

This third edition brings Moore's classic work up to date with dozens of new examples of successes and failures, new strategies for marketing in the digital world, and Moore's most current insights and findings. He also includes two new appendices, the first connecting the ideas in Crossing the Chasm to work subsequently published in his Inside the Tornado, and the second presenting his recent groundbreaking work for technology adoption models for high-tech consumer markets.

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In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle - which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards - there is a vast chasm between the early adopters and the early majority. While early adopters are willing to sacrifice for the advantage of being first, the early majority waits until they know that the technology actually offers improvements in productivity. The challenge for innovators and marketers is to narrow this chasm and ultimately accelerate adoption across every segment.

This third edition brings Moore's classic work up to date with dozens of new examples of successes and failures, new strategies for marketing in the digital world, and Moore's most current insights and findings. He also includes two new appendices, the first connecting the ideas in Crossing the Chasm to work subsequently published in his Inside the Tornado, and the second presenting his recent groundbreaking work for technology adoption models for high-tech consumer markets.

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Praise for Previous Editions of Crossing the Chasm:

"Crossing the Chasm truly addresses the subtleties of high-tech marketing. We have embraced many of the concepts in the book and it has become a 'bestseller' with Unisys."
- James A. Unruh, CEO, Unisys

"Crossing the Chasm is no longer just the name of a great book - it has become a very effective management process. In venture capital, chasm management is a widely used boardroom tool for emerging technology companies. It works!"
- Joe Schoendorf, executive partner, Accel Partners

"Crossing the Chasm has contributed more to the art and science of high-tech marketing than any other book in the last decade. If you are not one of the thousands of businesses and universities incorporating the chasm insight into your operations, you have to be worried about your future."
- Tom Kendra, vice president, Worldwide Data Management Sales, IBM Software Group

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Business; 3rd edition (January 28, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062292986
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062292988
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Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Wildcat Venture Partners portfolios and established high-tech enterprises, most recently including Salesforce, Microsoft, Autodesk, F5Networks, Gainsight, Google, and Splunk.

Moore’s life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, focuses on the challenges start-up companies face transitioning from early adopting to mainstream customers. It has sold more than a million copies, and its third edition has been revised such that the majority of its examples and case studies reference companies come to prominence from the past decade. Moore’s latest business-related work, Zone to Win, addresses the challenge large enterprises face when embracing disruptive innovations, even when it is in their best interests to do so. It’s time to stop explaining why they don’t and start explaining how they can. This has been the basis of much of his recent consulting.

In a significant departure from Moore’s lifetime of business-related consulting, Moore uses his expertise at creating frameworks and applies it to the meaning of life itself and the big question, “What is going on?”. His latest book, The Infinite Staircase: What the Universe Tells Us About Life, Ethics, and Mortality, offers readers a complete look at how the universe has evolved and our ethical place within it. As Moore says in the book, “Our core sense of good and bad does not come from above. It is neither transcendent nor divine. Rather, it is inherent in our mammalian upbringing.”

Irish by heritage, Moore has yet to meet a microphone he didn’t like and gives between 50 and 80 speeches a year. One theme that has received a lot of attention recently is the transition in enterprise IT investment focus from Systems of Record to Systems of Engagement. This is driving the deployment of a new cloud infrastructure to complement the legacy client-server stack, creating massive markets for a next generation of tech industry leaders.

Moore has a bachelors in American literature from Stanford University and a PhD in English literature from the University of Washington. After teaching English for four years at Olivet College, he came back to the Bay Area with his wife and family and began a career in high tech as a training specialist. Over time he transitioned first into sales and then into marketing, finally finding his niche in marketing consulting, working first at Regis McKenna Inc, then with the three firms he helped found: The Chasm Group, Chasm Institute, and TCG Advisors. Today he is chairman emeritus of all three.

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Scott J Pearson

Clearly describes high-tech dynamics

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2023

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Most technology products begin with technologists playing in their environments. They then pick up steam when early visionaries figure out how to use it to expand their individual platforms and gain a competitive edge. However, many, if not most, products die there and never find their way to mainstream use. In this classic book, Geoffrey Moore explains why. The motives that drive these first two groups are different than the motives of mainstream customers, whom he divides into “pragmatists” and “conservatives.” He calls the gulf between these two as a “chasm” and in this book explores strategies for traversing this gap.

Professionally, I am a developer who brings biomedical software from mere idea into wider adoption in the marketplace. I’m well-aware of these phenomena that Moore describes and am always looking for wiser ways to engage users and communities of potential users. This book explains many dynamics I encounter on a daily basis, and it helps to put words on these trends. As a pioneer, I pride myself on being creative and innovative, but I also desperately want those new advances to be brought into effective use through hard-wrought gains. This book teaches me how to do both acts to achieve a greater benefit.

As evidenced by this book being in a third edition, Moore has found a wide audience for his instruction. Its message has continued through three-to-four decades, an eternity in the fast-paced world of high-tech. Although I’m hesitant to criticize a working product, to me, this work should receive a different subtitle: It is less a book about selling and marketing and more of a description of how high-tech works. Its examples have been updated through the years – making it easy to read – but its conceptual relevance has remained constant.

Marketers and salespeople are the obvious, stated audiences for this book. Nonetheless, anyone involved in making high-tech products, including engineers, managers, developers, and executives, should pay heed. It shines a light on the essential business challenges of bringing technological ideas to fruition and adoption. Modern society has achieved an effective track record of technological advancement, but improvements and efficiencies can always be gained. Moore shows us how by showing us how to think better.

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Zachary T. Berger

This should be taught in every business school.

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024

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Absolutely loved the book! It should be read with “The Goal.” I find it remarkably useful. Keep in mind there are four pillars to business, marketing, operations, corporate finance, and accounting. This would of course be the marketing pillar.

Good condition and arrived in less than a week

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2024

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Got it for a fraction of the new price and it’s in good condition. Always buy second hand if I can!

Chasm Crossing for Disruptive Innovations Updated

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2017

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This book provides a lucid, updated account about what is involved in successfully introducing and getting mainstream acceptance of disruptive innovations in high tech related businesses that can also be applied more broadly as well (e.g. in other industries, non-profits).

I first became aware of Moore’s book “Living on the Fault Line” (see my review of this and “Escape Velocity”) when at CSC Consulting where I also started to hear about his concepts such as the “Technology Adoption Life Cycle.” Given increased recent interest in such topics, it was heartening to discover that Moore had issued a new edition of his initial book which drew me to examine this version. and the book for the first time.

The book consists of two parts. Part I is about “Discovering the Chasm” the need to gain support for a disruptive innovation vs. just expecting The Field of Dreams (if you build it they will come) can be realized. Part II is about Crossing the Chasm using an analogy to the WWII D-Day invasion where the group has to: target the point of attack, assemble the invasion force, define the battle, and launch the invasion. A conclusion discusses the financial, organizational and R&D aspects of approaching and leaving the chasm behind. He treats how different stakeholders are involved and mobilized (see my review of Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art ). Helpful appendices summarize the high-tech market development model (which is business to business and the subject of Moore’s second book “Inside the Tornado”) and a four gears model for engaging consumers in adopting digital innovations (business to consumer).

At the time of this writing, I was doing some work with a non-profit organization advocating treatment and research advances related to mental health issues. I was struck by the notion that Moore’s model could apply in such non-profit sector situations as well (see my review of Daniel Siegel’s Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation based on recent neuroscience). It also appeared to me that these ideas could relate to career entrepreneurship (see my review of the book “Value Proposition Design” by A. Osterwalder et al and another of their books, “Business Model You”).

Because of my background and interests at the time, my favorite parts had to do with the parts on basic definitions of the technology adoption life cycle and marketing elements such as the diagrams showing “the simplified whole product model” (page 137) and “the competitive positioning compass” (page 167, 189). I was impressed that the revised edition had pertinent references to then current developments such as the evolution of SaaS (Software as a Service) with groups such as when the founders of PeopleSoft overtaken by SAP and Oracle initiated Work Day and contributed to the rise of Cloud Computing. Other cases sited that were particularly relevant to me included the one on Documentum (use in Pharma Regulatory & Safety matters), early targeting of the Mac computer at Corporate Advertising/Art Departments and the graphic appeal of these machines. Moore’s proposed definition of chasm crossing transition roles such as target market segment manager and whole product manager as well as the compensation/reward considerations between them and pioneering salespeople and technologists also stood out for me.

So, for an update on chasm crossing for disruptive innovations (and its broader application), take a look at Moore’s most recent edition of his excellent first book.

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Juan José Díaz Tello

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Excelente libro

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Super livre !

Reviewed in France on December 15, 2022

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Ce livre n'est pas jeune mais pourtant il reste un "must" en terme de lecture pour ce qui concerne le business modele des starts-up où de n'importe quel business d'ailleurs.

Il livre de chevet à garder à vie pour tous les commerciaux et entrepreneurs qui veulent réussir dans ce qu'ils font.

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Vivek Slaria

Must read for any tech product entrepreneur

Reviewed in India on November 18, 2022

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Read it to change the way you look at product marketing

André Ferraz da Costa

Best marketing book ever read

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This is by far the best book about marketing and populations strategy you will ever seen. Continuing the work of Everett Rogers and Roger McKenna, the legends.

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Jan Wall

As Valuable Today As It Was years Ago

Reviewed in Canada on April 21, 2017

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There is a general tendency to discount books and articles as they age. This is particularly true in high technology. This book, however, is a classic. Its lessons are just as valuable today as they were when the book was first published. The author has taken pains to update his examples with recent market developments and I applaud him for that. But the underlying truths, the insights that are not at all obvious, are all the more valuable because they are not obvious and are instrumental in informing management's decisions. In 2017 I would recommend this book to all senior managers and stakeholders in both B2B and B2C companies.

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