Stock photo. Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available.
The Strategy Machine
Building Your Business One Idea at a Time
by Larry Downes
ISBN: 0066211298
ISBN-13: 9780066211299
Format: Hardcover
|
Customer Reviews
Review this book!
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.15 pounds
Pages: 240
Publisher's Notes
Predicting a revolutionary age of "disposable computing," a guide on how businesses can appropriately respond and succeed presents case studies while offering advice on developing and nurturing a strategic portfolio while managing obstacles.
Similar books
Unleashing the Killer App
by Larry Downes
When technologies, products, and services converge in radical, creative new ways, a "killer app" emerges-a new application so powerful that it transforms industries, redefines markets, and annihilates the competition. The steam engine, the cotton gin, and the Model T were all killer apps of their time. Today's killer apps spring from the digital realm: the personal computer, e-mail, and the World Wide Web. Tempted by the promise of such devastating power, companies large and small, from vast multinationals to lean entrepreneurial start-ups, are remaking themselves into organizations that nurture killer apps rather than succumb to them. How is it done? In this groundbreaking new book, strategists Downes and Mui identify the twelve fundamental design principles for building killer apps and offer a progressive guide to transforming your company into a place where killer apps are born. Unleashing the Killer App provides the tools, the techniques, and the proof that you need to incubate the killer app within your organization -and perhaps even release one. A Business Week Bestseller. "A practical and persuasive guide that focuses on how all businesses, even risk-averse old-line organizations, have an opportunity 'not just to survive but to exploit dramatic changes' wrought in their markets by technology.... Instead of shrinking from the hard problems facing existing corporations, Mr. Downes and Mr. Mui attack them head-on with 12 technology strategies to help build what the authors call 'killer apps.'"--The New York Times "For the uninitiated, this book is a great primer on the forces driving the new economy: the surge in computing power, the exponentially rising value of networks, and the plunging cost of transactions.... The authors, both consultants, offer a dozen design principles of relevance to businesses small and large alike."--The Wall Street Journal "Unleashing the Killer App...is a best-of-breed primer for executives cramming for the new economy."--Wired "In Unleashing the Killer App, the authors rise above all the chatter about increased productivity and sound a warning cry: Change your strategy now. With many businesses still lumbering along in the Industrial Age, it's a message well worth hearing."--Business Week "It's rare that a business book distinguishes itself among the pack of cookie-cutter manifestos. KILLER APP rises above with skillfully written analysis and compelling company profiles that combine to map today's digital landscape."--The Industry Standard "With an insightful foreword by Nicholas Negroponte, this book presents a convincing case for a radical shift in current business strategies."--Publishers Weekly "'Just do it' is the message here...Readers are presented with a 12-step 'Digital Strategy' for transforming any organization from cringing-reactionary, dreading the arrival of the next killer app, to flexing-visionary, aggressively preparing to hatch and unleash future killer apps....[The authors] write with an in-your-face style that airs out the mustiness from a book aimed at business execs."--San Jose Mercury News "Provocatively counterintuitive.... Truly eye-opening."--Technology Review "When confronted with market disruption and technology revolution, your biggest challenge is letting go of comfortable old behaviors before they kill you. Downes and Mui get you to move quickly by analyzing the inherent threats embedded in the digital age's "killer apps," and then showing you how to turn those apps into new types of competitive advantage."--Geoffrey A. Moore, Chairman, The Chasm Group, and Author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado "Unleashing the Killer App reinvents strategy for the digital age. It's a major contribution to our understanding of the age of the Internet and a must-read for anyone interested in succeeding in the interactive future."--Don Peppers, Coauthor, The One To One Future and Enterprise One To One "Downes and Mui go behind the scenes to tell their readers how yesterday's little-known players unleashed killer apps to become today's industry giants. Entrepreneurs who want to make a serious contribution to the digital economy must read Unleashing the Killer App."--Kim Polese, President and CEO, Marimba, Inc. "Anybody who still thinks the dawn of the Virtual Age is a pipe-dream had better read this book....Unleashing the Killer App is a scary book for those who've bet the farm on their idea of The Firm."--John Perry Barlow, Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation "Killer App is the Killer Navigator for digital voyages."--Alan Kay, Disney Fellow and Vice President of R&D, Walt Disney Imagineering
Fourth Generation Management
by Brian L. Joiner
Written by the first of a new breed of "quality gurus," Fourth Generation Management is a clear, concise synthesis of the best of current management practice and a host of dynamic prescriptions for the future. The centerpiece of the book is the "Joiner Triangle", which provides readers with a conceptual framework upon which to build a new corporate culture-one that positions companies for growing productivity and profit in the years ahead. Focusing on quality as defined by the customer. . .a scientific, databased approach to management. . .and the creation of long-term, team-spirited relationships both internally and externally-the Joiner Triangle is already gaining credence as the management philosophy of tomorrow. And that's only the beginning. Readers will learn why process is more important than short-term results, how to foster a working environment in which all employees feel like winners, a new way of looking at data, processes, and variation, and much more. In short, this major release by a widely respected quality improvement leader is the business person's blueprint for the next phase of the "Quality Revolution."
Management by Baseball
by Jeff Angus
A sportswriter and management consultant draws on the business lessons exemplified by Joe Torre, Dusty Baker, and other baseball managers to show how business managers can improve their own management skills and business profitability by using their knowledge of the sport of baseball.
The Myths of Innovation
by Scott Berkun
Think Out of the Box
by Mike Vance
Drawing on his own creative experience as the former dean of Disney University and as in-demand corporate adviser and speaker, Mike Vance uses a nine-dot matrix to plot the nine necessary points of a creative culture: people, place, product, involving, informing, inspiring, caring, cooperation, and creativity. Vance and co-author Diane Deacon show you how to connect these components and make them part of your company's culture. Together they tell you how to turn your own ways of thinking upside down...so you can turn your organization right side up.
|
|
Ready to buy this book?
Below are all of the copies of 9780066211299 we currently have available for purchase, sorted by lowest price first. If you would like to refine your search, use the advanced options in the search box above.
|
|
1)
|
The Strategy Machine: Building Your Business One Idea at a Time
Downes, Larry
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harperbusiness, 2002. Clean, crisp & tight ex-library book. Modest shelfwear, primarily on edges. Stamps & card pocket inside covers/fep's; Dust Jacket in protective mylar taped inside covers; shelf label/bar code label on mylar. Excellent condition.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. ( more information)
Offered by ShelfMasters.com, Inc. (United States)
|
|
|
5)
|
The Strategy Machine
No Illustration, Downes
New York: Harper, 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. EX-LIBRARY EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET. BLACK HARD COVER. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT. ( more information)
Offered by Mybooklocator (United States)
|
|
|
0 items in cart
Muze Inc. For personal non-commercial use only. All rights reserved. Some content for books is owned by Baker & Taylor, Inc. or its licensors and is subject to copyright and all other protections provided by applicable law.
