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Competing for the Future (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) |
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Label: Harvard Business Review
Manufacturer: Harvard Business Review
Number Of Pages: 10
Publication Date: September 01, 2003
Publisher: Harvard Business Review
Release Date: October 25, 2008
Studio: Harvard Business Review
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Amazon.com Review:
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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Is your company a rule maker or a rule follower? Does your company focus on catching up or on getting out in front? Do you spend the bulk of your time as a maintenance engineer preserving the status quo or as an architect designing the future? Difficult questions like these go unanswered not because senior managers are lazy--most are working harder than ever--but because they won't admit that they are less than fully in control of their companies' future. In this adaptation from their upcoming book, Hamel and Prahalad urge senior managers to look toward the future and ponder their ability to shape their companies in the years and decades to come. Creating the future, as Electronic Data Systems has done, for example, requires industry foresight. Since change is inevitable, managers must decide whether it will happen in a crisis atmosphere or in a calm and considered manner. Too often, profound thinking about the future occurs only when present success has been eroded.
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- quite easily one of the best works in strategyQuite easily one of the best works in strategy which helps sharpen thinking on key aspects like core competencies, strategic architecture, roadmaps to competing effectively in the future. This is a classic.
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- Still relevantAlthough, written in 90's, this book provides an excellent insight in to planning and architecting the enterprises of future which is still relevant. Take an example of GEICO or Progressive of the Insurance world. Take a look at how they built an innovative distribution channels and made it their core competency. While their competition was comforted with old agency distribution model and now competition is trying to duplicate their core competency instead of thinking about future.
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- good bookLike every business book, it has at least 100 pages more than what would have been necessary to get the idea.
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- Don't Ignore the Lessons in this Book..."Gary Hamel is one of the brightest corporate strategist on the planet. And C.K. Prahalad is a brilliant business mind from the University of Michigan. Together, they have produced a profound book that will revitalize many companies. Those firms and organizations that ignore the new strategic architecture will be like `the deer caught in the headlights'... they will be doomed like many of the companies that have already disappeared from the ranks of the Fortune 1000."
-- Ko Hayashi
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- Don't be a bug on the windshield!"On the road to the future, who will be the windshield, and who will be the bug?" - Gary Hamel
To be competitive in today's world, you must focus not only on the here and now, but also focus on creating the future because "Nothing is more liberating than becoming the author of one's on destiny."
Hamel and Prahalad deeply understand the very core of competition, and provide the reader with an understanding of how to build a great company.
Chapter 1: Getting Off ... Read More
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