During the past few years, the global environment has been increasingly causing revolutionary, disruptive innovation changes in traditional industries, corporations and business models. Traditional approaches to strategy are proving to be inadequate to deal with these changes, and those who want to survive and succeed in the highly competitive global economy urgently need more dynamic, innovative and holistic approaches to strategy and strategic management.
The major focus of this book is to provide new strategic management approaches and tools to enable capabilities for rapid, discontinuous organizational innovation and change. For both advanced students and business managers, it presents a well-balanced combination of leading-edge theory supported by published articles of prominent scholars, and case studies & examples, all designed to substantiate a new strategic mindset, innovative tools, and practical applications for significantly increased innovative capabilities.
Among the topics covered in the book are innovative business models, open-sourcing, mobile enterprise, industry-inflection, systemic strategy approaches, R&D structures outside the organization, innovation effectiveness tools, networked incubation, customer knowledge cooption, communities of new value creation, and innovative strategy leadership.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
A well thought out collection of important essays on strategy and the future:
Strategy Management in the Innovation Economy is an anthology of important works by those that study strategy, its implications, and its future. This is not a business book, but rather it contains a number of essays on the future of strategy and its implementation. This gives the book an academic nature that is a breath of fresh air for people studying issues of strategy in general and the future of strategy in particular. The book is organized into six parts each focusing on a different aspect of... more info
The must read book for all business researchers and managers:
At first glance I thought this book is an ambitious one: why the focus on innovation economy (is it really different?), and will another book on strategic management have anything significantly new - and practical - to say? The wish that I have, and I guess many other business managers, is for simple and practical strategy approaches and tools to handle the speed and (often bewildering) innovative variety of our current business and economic life. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the authors not only... more info
