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Competing for the Future
Author: Gary Hamel Edition: First Edition Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0875847161 Price: You Save: 81%
Competing for the Future
Size : 20.07 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm
New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete.Competing for the Future review. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, whose much-revered thinking has already engendered a new language of strategy. In this book, they develop a coherent model for how today's executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow's marketplaceRead full reviews of Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World.
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Review "Drawing on a lifetime of experience in the industry, the authors offer some answers and also explain how the industry base can flourish against lower wage competition."-Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and EnvironmentBook Description How many of us really understand the drivers behind the recent revolution in digital technology? Drawing on a life time's experience in the industry, Henry Kressel explains how the technology works, why it matters, how it is financed and what the key lessons are for public policy.
Competing for the Future: With a new Preface by the Authors : Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad (Item # 0875847161) The authors offer a masterful blueprint for what your company must be doing today if it is to occupy the competitive high ground of tomorrow. By showing that the key to future industry leadership is to develop an independent point of view about tomorrow's opportunities and build capabilities that exploit them. Hamel and Prahalad reveal an entirely new definition of what it means to be strategic and successful. "Arguably the two most influtential thinkers on strategy in the western world
Competing for the Future : Paperback : Harvard Business School Publishing : 9780875847160 : 0875847161 : 01 Apr 1996 : Develops a coherent model for how modern executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow's marketplace. This blueprint addresses how executives can ease the tension between competing and clearing a path toward leadership in the future.
In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, whose much-revered thinking has already engendered a new language of strategy. In this book, they develop a coherent model for how today's executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow's marketplace. Their masterful blueprint addresses how executives can ease the tension between competing today and clearing a path toward leadership in the future.
Winning in business today is not about being number one--it's about who "gets to the future first," write management consultants Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad. In Competing for the Future, they urge companies to create their own futures, envision new markets, and reinvent themselves.
Hamel and Prahalad caution that complacent managers who get too comfortable in doing things the way they've always done will see their companies fall behind. For instance, the authors consider the battle between IBM and Apple in the 1970s. Entrenched as the leading mainframe-computer maker, IBM failed to see the potential market for personal computers. That left the door wide open for Apple, which envisioned a computer for every man, woman, and child. The authors write, "At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads." They argue that business leaders need to be more than "maintenance engineers," worrying only about budget cutting, streamlining, re-engineering, and other old tactics. Definitely not for dilettantes, Competing for the Future is for managers who are serious getting their companies in front. -- Dan Ring
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