The Only Sustainable Edge

Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction And Dynamic Specialization

John Hagel III, John Seely Brown - Collection Strategy

218 pages, parution le 20/05/2005

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Résumé

In an attempt to shave costs and reduce operating expenses, many firms have used outsourcing and offshoring. But as opportunities for innovation and growth migrate to the peripheries of companies, industries, and the global economy, efficiency will no longer be enough to sustain competitive advantage. In The Only Sustainable Edge, renowned business thinkers John Hagel and John Seely Brown argue that the only sustainable advantage in the future will come from an institutional capacity to work closely with other highly specialized firms to get better faster. Enabled by the emergence of global process networks, firms will undergo a three-stage transformation: deepening specialization within firms, mobilizing best-in-class capabilities across enterprises and, ultimately, accelerating learning across broad networks of enterprises. Hagel and Seely Brown discuss the strategic levers that will accelerate this migration, and they outline a new approach to strategy development that will help companies capture this shifting source of strategic advantage. Calling for a forceful reinvention of business strategy and the very nature of the firm itself, this bold and forward-looking book reveals what every company must do today to become tomorrow's market leader.

L'auteur - John Hagel III

John HAGEL III, directeur associé de McKinsey & Company, dirige le pole E-commerce.
John Hagel III is a business consultant based in Silicon Valley, and is coauthor of two best-selling books, Net Gain and Net Worth. He has served as a senior executive with various technology companies and spent sixteen years as a Partner at McKinsey & Company, Inc.

L'auteur - John Seely Brown

Seely Brown is the former chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and served as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for 12 years.

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Acknowledgments
Prologue
Beyond Margin Squeeze
Offshoring
Dynamic Specialization
New Forms of Connection and Coordination
Productive Friction
Weaving a Performance Fabric
New Approaches to Developing Strategy
Epilogue
Notes
Index
About the Authors

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Harvard Business School Press (HBS)
Auteur(s)	John Hagel III, John Seely Brown
Collection	Strategy
Parution	20/05/2005
Nb. de pages	218
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	541g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781591397205
ISBN13	978-1-59139-720-5