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Named one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazine
From the greatest minds in business today comes a groundbreaking new blueprint for executing the next stage of customer-created value. C.K. Prahalad, the world's premier business thinker, and IT scholar M.S. Krishnan unveil the critical missing link in connecting strategy to execution--building organizational capabilities that allow companies to achieve and sustain continuous change and innovation.
The New Age of Innovation reveals that the key to creating value and the future growth of every business depends on accessing a global network of resources to co-create unique experiences with customers, one at a time. To achieve this, CEOs, executives, and managers at every level must transform their business processes, technical systems, and supply chain management, implementing key social and technological infrastructure requirements to create an ongoing innovation advantage.
In this landmark work, Prahalad and Krishnan explain how to accomplish this shift--one where IT and the management architecture form the corporation's fundamental foundation. This book provides strategies for
Redesigning systems to co-create value with customers and connect all parts of a firm to this process
Measuring individual behavior through smart analytics
Ceaselessly improving the flexibility and efficiency in all customer-facing and back-end processes
Treating all involved individuals--customers, employees, investors, suppliers--as unique
Working across cultures and time-zones in a seamless global network
Building teams that are capable of providing high-quality, low-cost solutions rapidly
To successfully compete on the battlefields of 21st-century business, companies must reinvent their processes and culture in order to sustain innovative solutions. The New Age of Innovation is a complete program for achieving this transformation to meet the needs of the end consumer of the future.
Synopsis:
Features a blueprint for corporate growth and innovation. This
Synopsis:
The NEW global standard for innovation from the world’s most influential management thinker—C.K. Prahalad
From the greatest minds in business today comes a brilliant new blueprint for corporate growth and innovation. With this new landmark work, C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan suggest a major shift in organizational structure—one where IT and the respective management structure form the fundamental foundation of a corporation. The future growth of every business depends on it. Once an organization can recognize this, it will be able to innovate processes and products that mobilize and deploy both technology and global resources. This will result in unique customer experiences that will delight the end consumer of the future.
“A brilliant teacher at the University of Michigan, Prahalad may well be the most influential thinker on business strategy today.”—BusinessWeek
C.K. Prahalad is the international bestselling author of Competing for the Future and The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, an award-winning business leader, and a world-renowned thinker on corporate innovation. He is the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
M.S. Krishnan is a Hallman Fellow & Professor of Business Information and Technology, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
The transformation of business — Business processes : the enablers of innovation — Analytics : insights for innovation — It matters : technical architecture for innovation — Organizational legacies : impediments to value creation — Efficiency and flexibility : managing the tension — Dynamic reconfiguration of talent — An agenda for managers : focus on the essence of innovation.
"Synopsis"
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Features a blueprint for corporate growth and innovation. This
"Synopsis"
by Google,
The NEW global standard for innovation from the world’s most influential management thinker—C.K. Prahalad
From the greatest minds in business today comes a brilliant new blueprint for corporate growth and innovation. With this new landmark work, C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan suggest a major shift in organizational structure—one where IT and the respective management structure form the fundamental foundation of a corporation. The future growth of every business depends on it. Once an organization can recognize this, it will be able to innovate processes and products that mobilize and deploy both technology and global resources. This will result in unique customer experiences that will delight the end consumer of the future.
“A brilliant teacher at the University of Michigan, Prahalad may well be the most influential thinker on business strategy today.”—BusinessWeek
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