The Escher Cycle

Creating Self-Reinforcing Business Advantage

Finn Jackson

322 pages, parution le 30/12/2004

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Résumé

This book shows how to achieve virtuoso performance in business. Strategic and practical, the author starts by identifying the key minimum activities that make any business successful. He then shows how becoming better than rivals at carrying out those activities is what provides a business with four distinct layers of strategic competitive advantage: The first layer of advantage comes from carrying out the basic activities better than rivals. This is Operations. The second layer comes from balancing and aligning the different parts to optimize the business as a whole. This is Leadership. The third layer comes from fine-tuning the way the activities are carried out to match the particular area of the economy where the business is operating. This is Strategy. And the fourth and ultimate layer of strategic advantage comes when the business connects all its different activities together in a way that generates higher levels of performance at them all. This is the Escher Cycle. The Escher Cycle describes how to create self-reinforcing business advantage, by leveraging the forces of progress that created the successful companies we have today, and which are already forming the successful companies of tomorrow. Virtuoso performance in business, as in any field of human activity, comes from focusing on exactly what is needed-no more and no less-and then co-ordinating those different activities perfectly. This book explains how to achieve that in business.

Benefits:

Defines from first principles what a business is and how it works in order to illustrate how companies can improve through the adoptions of strategies that fit their specific needs.
Integrates strategy and operation thinking, to provide simple practical solutions on what actions a company can take in order to succeed in our increasingly competitive global business landscape.
Shows how to design and implement self-reinforcing change to develop competitive superiority.

L'auteur - Finn Jackson

Finn Jackson is an original thinker, writer, and consultant with a unique focus on strategic innovation. A self-styled "business architect", he helps create new businesses and rejuvenate existing ones. His expertise in strategy, process, and organization has helped create sustainable strategic change in numerous organizations, ranging from start-ups to billion-dollar business units in more than a dozen countries worldwide. Born in India, Mr. Jackson earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Oxford University-where he developed his desire to discover the underlying causes that drive observed behavior-and his MBA summa cum laude from Imperial College, London. At EDS he worked his way up through the business, ultimately serving on the European Leadership Teams of two of the company's top three global accounts. Over nine years, he created lasting strategic change in almost every functional area of the business and became intimately involved in what drives success at all levels of business. He lives in England, and works internationally.

Sommaire

Prologue
Introduction
The Operational Perspective : Running the System
The Leadership Perspective : Balancing the System
The Strategic Perspective : Fine-Tuning the System
The Executive Perspective : Connecting the System
Index
About Texere and Type

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Thomson
Auteur(s)	Finn Jackson
Parution	30/12/2004
Nb. de pages	322
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	659g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781587991943
ISBN13	978-1-58799-194-3