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The New Age of Innovation : Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks

11 reviews

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Excellent and informative
This is a great book - it brings together a whole host of ideas into one thread which paints a realistic and insightful picture of the modern world around us. Lots of real world examples and easy to understand. Highly recommended.

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Strategy (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

3 reviews
David J. Collis, Cynthia A. Montgomery, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 1999

Theories on Strategy backed by real life examples.
This is another excellent collection of essays from Harvard Business Review and the topic is Corporate Strategy. 8 essays in a little less than 250 pages address various corporate strategies that can be useful if you are in a similar situation. These are very interesting theories and it is fascinating to read them with all the real life examples. If you don't enjoy pure strategy, some of the ...

Strategic Intent

2 reviews
Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad, 1989

Unseat the best or remain the best, worldwide
Gary Hamel is Founder and Chairman of Strategos and Visiting Professor to the London Business School. C.K. Prahalad is Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the University of Michigan. This article was published in the May-June 1989 issue of Harvard Business Review. "Companies that have risen to global leadership over the past 20 years invariably began with ambitions that ...

The Core Competence of the Corporation

3 reviews
C. K. Prahalad

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Introduction into Core Competencies
C.K. Prahalad is Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the University of Michigan; Gary Hamel is Founder and Chairman of management consultancy Strategos and Visiting Professor at the London Business School. Gary Hamel was lecturer in Business Policy and Management at the London Business School when this landmark-article was published in the May-June 1990-issue of the ...

Harvard Business Review on Customer Relationship Management

5 reviews
C. K. Prahalad, Patrica B. Ramaswamy, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2002

Brilliant and Eloquent Delineation of Basics
This is one in a series of several dozen volumes which comprise the "Harvard Business Review Paperback Series." Each offers direct, convenient, and inexpensive access to the best thinking on the given subject in articles originally published by the Harvard Business School Review. I strongly recommend all of the volumes in the series. The individual titles are listed at this Web site: ...

Strategic Flexibility: Managing in a Turbulent Environment

1 review

Wiley, 1999

Chapter 5 (The H-P Way)
Would you please give an authorize to use the OCP and H-P Way for measure the corporate culture of my organization? If you agree,please advise me in using that tools such as: 1. How to score? 2. How to interpret the result of scoring(percentage of application)? 3. How the result compares to other organizations? Your response in this matter is highly appreciated. Thank you. Best Regards, ...

Competing for the Future

35 reviews
Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad

Harvard Business School Press, 1994

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 ...

The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure (The Jossey-Bass Management ...

5 reviews
Ronald N. Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, ...

Jossey-Bass, 1995

Yes and No
The title is a misnomer: Although the authors do indeed suggest how to "break through the chains of organizational structure", they provide an enlightening explanation of four different types of boundaries (vertical, horizontal, external, and geographic) which give definition to any organization. They do not advocate the total elimination of these boundaries (which is impossible, anyway); ...

The Future of Competition

13 reviews
Venkat Ramaswamy, C.K. Prahalad

Penguin Books, 2006

Breakthrough Thinking for higher IQ managers
The concepts presented in the book are deceptively easy to gloss over. I do not blame the reviewers at this site who did not 'get it'. This is not something one can expect to read and understand over a coast-to-coast flight like most of the popular business books one tends to find at the airport book stores. It is heavily intellectual content and for those who do 'get it', the payoffs can ...

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

4 reviews
Harvard Business School Press, C. K. Prahalad, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2003

Harvard CSR
As an educational leadership professor, I am interested in learning about corporations and how they impact educational settings. This text was one of the most comprehensive collections of essays to offer a wide range of perspectives on the issues of corporate social responsibility. With its researchers and the commentary, this text provides a novice, like myself, with the background, application ...

Competing for Industry Foresight
Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad

Harvard Business School Press, 1994

Industry foresight gives a company the potential to get to the future first and stake out a leadership position. This chapter shows how to develop the prescience needed to proactively shape industry evolution.

The Co-Creation Connection
C.K. Prahalad, Venkatram Ramaswamy

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., 2002

For more than 100 years, a company-centric, efficiency-driven view of value creation has shaped our industrial infrastructure and the entire business system. Although this perspective often conflicts with what consumers value - the quality of their experiences with goods and services - companies see value creation as a process of cost-effectively producing goods and services. Now information and communications technology, the Internet in ...

Competing for the Future
Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad

Harvard Business School, 1995

Who will invent the industries of the future? Who will transform the industries of today? Framed by insightful commentary by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, this video tells the story of EDS, which involved thousands of managers and tens of thousands of hours reconceiving all elements of its fundamental strategy.

Cocreating Business's New Social Compact (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Jeb Brugmann, C. K. Prahalad

Harvard Business Review, 2007

Moving beyond decades of mutual distrust and animosity, corporations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are learning to cooperate with each other. Realizing that their interests are converging, the two sides are working together to create innovative business models that are helping to grow new markets and accelerate the eradication of poverty. The path to convergence has proceeded in three stages. In the initial be- responsible stage, ...

Co-opting Customer Competence
C. K. Prahalad, Venkatram Ramaswamy

Harvard Business Review, 2000

Major business trends such as deregulation, globalization, technological convergence, and the rapid evolution of the Internet have transformed the roles that companies play in their dealings with other companies. Business practitioners and scholars talk about alliances, networks, and collaboration among companies. But managers and researchers have largely ignored the agent that is most dramatically transforming the industrial system as we know ...

Collaborate with Your Competitors - and Win
Gary Hamel, Yves L. Doz, ...

Harvard Business Review, 1989

Collaboration between competitors is in fashion. But the rise of competitive collaboration has triggered unease about its long-term effects. Companies that benefit most from competitive collaboration never forget that their partners may be out to disarm them. They know that harmony is not the most important measure of success; indeed, occasional conflict may be the best evidence of mutually beneficial collaboration. Successful companies also ...

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

4 reviews
C.K. Prahalad, Stuart L. Hart

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., 2002

this is available free
It's an excellent piece of work. Look out for upcoming book on the topic.

Building Gateways to the Future: Industry Leadership
Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad

Harvard Business School Press, 1994

In this chapter, the authors argue that a key challenge in competing for the future is to preemptively build the core competencies that provide gateways to tomorrow's opportunities, as well as to find novel applications of current competencies.

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