Clockspeed
Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage
Charles H. Fine(Author)
Little, Brown & Company (Publisher)
Published on 6. May 1999
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-316-64834-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Presenting an approach designed to help companies to master and manage their organizational evolution, this book argues that today's businesses have a simple choice - evolution or extinction - and that, unless they not only choose, but understand and predict their own evolution, they will die. Using a Nobel Prize-winning study of the lifecycle of fruit flies, and creating a business double-helix, the author sets out to show how the discipline of genetics harnesses the power of "clockspeed" - a company's or an industry's actual rate of evolution - to do nothing less than predict the future. Offering specific mechanisms to prepare for that future, the book crosses disciplines and draws lessons from a wide spectrum of well-known international companies and industries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
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Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
629 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-64834-9 (9780316648349)
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Person
Charles Fine has based this book on more than five years' research at MIT. A widely recognised expert in business strategy and organisational design, Fine regularly addresses and consults executive management of the world's leading companies such as Boeing, Lucent Technologies and Toyota.