Bøger af C. K. Prahalad

Argues that in a world in which information is readily available to everyone, the role of the customer has changed dramatically. This book present four building blocks that helps companies to co-create the future with customers - transparency, access, dialogues, and risk management - and illustrates them through examples from a range of companies.

New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, whose much-revered thinking has already engendered a new language of strategy. In this book, they develop a coherent model for how today's executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow's marketplace. Their masterful blueprint addresses how executives can ease the tension between competing today and clearing a path toward leadership in the future.

In this McKinsey Award-winning article, first published in May 1989, Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad explain that Western companies have wasted too much time and energy replicating the cost and quality advantages their global competitors already experience. Canon and other world-class competitors have taken a different approach to strategy: one of strategic intent. They begin with a goal that exceeds the company's present grasp and existing resources: "e;Beat Xerox"e;; "e;encircle Caterpillar."e; Then they rally the organization to close the gap by setting challenges that focus employees' efforts in the near to medium term: "e;Build a personal copier to sell for $1,000"e;; "e;cut product development time by 75%."e; Year after year, they emphasize competitive innovation-building a portfolio of competitive advantages; searching markets for "e;loose bricks"e; that rivals have left underdefended; changing the terms of competitive engagement to avoid playing by the leader's rules. The result is a global leadership position and an approach to competition that has reduced larger, stronger Western rivals to playing an endless game of catch-up.