Big Bang Disruption
Business Survival in the Age of Constant Innovation
Published on 6. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-241-00352-7 (ISBN)
Description
Big Bang Disruption is an alarming look at how quick-to-market innovations are killing established industries
It used to take years for new products and services to dethrone industry leaders. Now any business can be instantly devastated by something better and cheaper. How can you protect yourself, and harness the power of Big Bang Disruption?
Take maps. Specialist map publishers were swept aside by GPS manufacturers, who in turn were decimated by smartphone apps.
In industries from travel to health to energy, start-ups can unravel your strategy before you even begin to grasp what's happening. Worse, they may not even see you as competition: you could simply be collateral damage.
The good news is that any business can mas?ter the strategy of the start-ups. In this essential book, Larry Downes and Paul Nunes show how to spot the next big thing. Drawing on extensive research by the Accenture Institute for High Performance and inter?views across 30 industries, they give you the tools to take control of your future.
'A stimulating read...carefully researched and accessibly written...the case studies on disruption alone are worth the cover price' -Financial Times
'Everything you need from business school in one very direct book' -Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
Larry Downes is a consultant and author of Unleashing the Killer App. He is a columnist for both Forbesand CNET, and writes regularly for other publications including Slate, the Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review and USA Today, among others.
Paul Nunes is the Global Managing Director of Research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance. His research findings have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,USA Today, BusinessWeek.com, Forbes.com, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune among other publications and media, and he is the Senior Contributing Editor at Outlook, Accenture's journal of thought leadership.
It used to take years for new products and services to dethrone industry leaders. Now any business can be instantly devastated by something better and cheaper. How can you protect yourself, and harness the power of Big Bang Disruption?
Take maps. Specialist map publishers were swept aside by GPS manufacturers, who in turn were decimated by smartphone apps.
In industries from travel to health to energy, start-ups can unravel your strategy before you even begin to grasp what's happening. Worse, they may not even see you as competition: you could simply be collateral damage.
The good news is that any business can mas?ter the strategy of the start-ups. In this essential book, Larry Downes and Paul Nunes show how to spot the next big thing. Drawing on extensive research by the Accenture Institute for High Performance and inter?views across 30 industries, they give you the tools to take control of your future.
'A stimulating read...carefully researched and accessibly written...the case studies on disruption alone are worth the cover price' -Financial Times
'Everything you need from business school in one very direct book' -Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
Larry Downes is a consultant and author of Unleashing the Killer App. He is a columnist for both Forbesand CNET, and writes regularly for other publications including Slate, the Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review and USA Today, among others.
Paul Nunes is the Global Managing Director of Research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance. His research findings have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,USA Today, BusinessWeek.com, Forbes.com, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune among other publications and media, and he is the Senior Contributing Editor at Outlook, Accenture's journal of thought leadership.
Reviews / Votes
A stimulating read...carefully researched and accessibly written...the case studies on disruption alone are worth the cover price * Financial Times * Everything you need from business school in one very direct book -- Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter Downes and Nunes are right that the competitive heat has been turned up by new technology * Economist * Stimulating...offers a helpful conceptual framework for thinking about big bang disruption * Forbes * Fascinating. Read this book quickly: the rules of the game change overnight -- Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever Reading this book is the best action you can take to fend off a Big Bang -- Hal Varian, Chief Economist, GoogleMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-00352-7 (9780241003527)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
01/2014
1st Edition
Penguin Books Ltd
€9.49
Available for download
Persons
Larry Downes is a consultant and author of Unleashing the Killer App. He is a columnist for both Forbesand CNET, and writes regularly for other publications including Slate, the Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review and USA Today, among others.
Paul Nunes is the Global Managing Director of Research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance. His research findings have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,USA Today, BusinessWeek.com, Forbes.com, Los Angeles Times, andChicago Tribune among other publications and media, and he is the Senior Contributing Editor at Outlook, Accenture's journal of thought leadership.
Paul Nunes is the Global Managing Director of Research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance. His research findings have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,USA Today, BusinessWeek.com, Forbes.com, Los Angeles Times, andChicago Tribune among other publications and media, and he is the Senior Contributing Editor at Outlook, Accenture's journal of thought leadership.