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

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McGraw Hill Professional, May 4, 2008 - Business & Economics - 304 pages
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Named one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazine

From the greatest minds in business today comes a groundbreaking new blueprint for executing the next stage of customer-created value. C.K. Prahalad, the world's premier business thinker, and IT scholar M.S. Krishnan unveil the critical missing link in connecting strategy to execution--building organizational capabilities that allow companies to achieve and sustain continuous change and innovation.

The New Age of Innovation reveals that the key to creating value and the future growth of every business depends on accessing a global network of resources to co-create unique experiences with customers, one at a time. To achieve this, CEOs, executives, and managers at every level must transform their business processes, technical systems, and supply chain management, implementing key social and technological infrastructure requirements to create an ongoing innovation advantage.

In this landmark work, Prahalad and Krishnan explain how to accomplish this shift--one where IT and the management architecture form the corporation's fundamental foundation. This book provides strategies for

  • Redesigning systems to co-create value with customers and connect all parts of a firm to this process
  • Measuring individual behavior through smart analytics
  • Ceaselessly improving the flexibility and efficiency in all customer-facing and back-end processes
  • Treating all involved individuals--customers, employees, investors, suppliers--as unique
  • Working across cultures and time-zones in a seamless global network
  • Building teams that are capable of providing high-quality, low-cost solutions rapidly

To successfully compete on the battlefields of 21st-century business, companies must reinvent their processes and culture in order to sustain innovative solutions. The New Age of Innovation is a complete program for achieving this transformation to meet the needs of the end consumer of the future.

 

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The book is filled with absurd business models and unattainable business goals. It is so superfluous that one starts questioning the need for spending four years and almost three hundred pages of good grade paper. The thoughts are very random and give an impression that the book was conceptualized on-the-fly without any substantial prior research or thought process. Probably the main writer was napping on a toilet seat when something stuck him as an idea, and he called the shadow writer, who was in another embarrassing situation, giving birth to sheet of ridicule. With the able management guru he is, the shadow writer had no problems in giving catchy and geeky names (N=1 and R=G), etching together some unimaginable examples, creating anomalies with existing order and spitting strong words. 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Chapter 1 The Transformation of Business
10
The Enablers of Innovation
44
Insights for Innovation
80
Technical Architecture for Innovation
108
Impediments to Value Creation
146
Managing the Tension
174
Chapter 7 Dynamic Reconfiguration of Talent
204
Focus on the Essence of Innovation
234
Notes
259
Index
267
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About the author (2008)

C.K. Prahalad is the international bestselling author of Competing for the Future and The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. He is the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Prahalad was named “The World's Most Influential Management Thinker” in 2007 by the Times of London and “the most influential thinker on business strategy today” by BusinessWeek.

M.S. Krishnan is a Hallman Fellow & Professor of Business Information and Technology, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

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TitleThe New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks
McGraw Hill professional
AuthorsC. K. Prahalad, M. S. Krishnan
PublisherMcGraw Hill Professional, 2008
ISBN0071598294, 9780071598293
Length304 pages
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