Vision, clear strategy, and balanced deployment of resources provide essential frameworks for high innovation, but they are not sufficient in themselves. Top managements in successful innovating enterprises go much further: they ensure their firms will win in competition. They see that their strategies embody: □ In-depth development of a few core competencies that give the company best-in-world capabilities in a few key areas critical to customers. □ More inte-llectual resources focused on these...
Книга "Стратегический процесс" представляет собой замечательную работу, в которой соединено все богатство теории стратегического менеджмента с практикой эффективного внедрения бизнес-политики. Авторам удалось не только систематически и всесторонне представить весь процесс стратегического планирования - от создания концепции до воплощения стратегии в жизнь, но и предложить собственную идеологию ведения бизнеса, превращающую рутинную процедуру в высокое искусство. Удачное сочетание теории и практи...
Today's knowledge- and service-based economy offers companies a chance to increase profits through strategic outsourcing of intellectually based systems. As companies disaggregate intellectual activities internally and outsource more externally, they approach true virtual organization with knowledge centers interacting largely through mutual interest and electronic ? rather than authority ? systems. In this article, Quinn outlines an integrated knowledge and outsourcing strategy that can mitigat...
From the Publisher: Now, from James Brian Quinn, internationally renowned author of the award-winning Intelligent Enterprise (Free Press), comes a trailblazing work on how both entrepreneurs and nations can develop, harness, and utilize intellect, science, and technology to maximize innovation and growth. With coauthors Jordan J. Baruch and Karen Anne Zien, Quinn reveals in practical terms how successful firms can intertwine intellectual capital and modern software capabilities to cut innovation...
A Reprint from Sloan Management Review A revolution is now underway. Most innovation occurs first in software.(1) And software is the primary element in all aspects of innovation from basic research through product introduction: * Software provides the critical mechanism through which managers can lower the costs, compress the time cycles, and increase the value of innovations. It is also the heart of the learning and knowledge processes that give innovations their highest payoffs. * In many cas...