Renewable Advantage: Crafting Strategy Through Economic Time
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品牌: Jeffrey Williams
基本信息出版社:Free Press (1999年1月12日)精装:272页正文语种:英语ISBN:0684833697条形码:9780684833699商品尺寸:24.4 x 16.4 x 2.7 cm商品重量:513 g品牌:Free PressASIN:0684833697商品描述内容简介The task of continuously renewing a company is the greatest challenge confronting any chief executive. To enable managers to project renewal strategies likely to win in the future, Jeffrey Williams has constructed a dynamic road map of outcomes in what he calls "economic time," based on a ten-year study of growth, decline, and renewal patterns of hundreds of companies in forty-five industries. In this superbly readable book, Williams's revolutionary, award-winning concept of slow-, standard-, and fast-cycle economic time provides a unifying business language that the multicycle manager can use to compare the renewal opportunities of widely diverse products, companies, and markets.Using examples and studies from companies such as Starbucks, McDonald's, UPS, Compaq, Sony, Merck, Disney, Toyota, IKEA, Microsoft, Sony, Intel, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Chrysler, and Hewlett-Packard, Williams explains that the key idea in economic time is being able to manage products and organizations according to the speed and means by which economic value arises, decays, and is renewed. The drivers of economic time areisolating mechanisms-- a firm's unique capabilities that lie at the heart of its competitive advantage -- and that, in Williams's framework, "delay" product obsolescence. Building on his intuitively appealing model, Williams describes how his three laws of renewal --convergence, alignment,andrenewal-- provide guidelines by which managers can gain command over strategy in complex, dynamic competitive situations.Renewable Advantageis not only essential reading but also will become a standard reference for senior and division managers, business scientists and strategists, and general managers in all industries.媒体推荐David Teece Director, Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Jeff Williams has richly illustrated the dynamics of competition in a wide variety of industrial contexts. The focus is on building competitive advantage through innovation and renewal. Provocative, well written, and informed by scholarship. --Review